Mail-From: local user C300EG60 at 18-Sep-82 16:41:27-EDT
Date: 18 September 1982 1640-EDT (Saturday)
From: Ed.Gehringer at CMU-10A (C300EG60)
To: Harry.Bovik at CMU-10A, Mary.Shaw at CMU-10A
Subject:  Sending data via alternative long-distance phone lines
Message-Id: <18Sep82 164026 EG60@CMU-10A>

Last May there was a discussion started by a Bboard message about alternative
long-distance phone services.  A few weeks afterwards someone--I believe it
was you, Mary--sent me a message asking about sending data through such
services.  I replied that I'd never had any experience with it.

Since then I recalled that I did connect to CMU-A via Sprint lines once for
about 10 minutes from a computer store in the Detroit area.  Also, last month
I connected to the CSD machines for about an hour from Atlanta.  On neither
occasion did I experience any trouble whatsoever with the lines.

However, I found that I could not connect via an auto-dial modem because
there was no way to get it to wait for the Sprint tone.  Nor could I call
Sprint via a telephone attached to the same line and then engage the
auto-dial modem.  Luckily I was carrying an acoustic modem in my trunk.
Once I used it, everything worked perfectly.

				-Ed