Re: tlug: Modem question

[Karl-Max Wagner <karlmax@example.com>]

> which modem.  A PBX is a PuBlic eXchange, commonly known as a phone
> system...

Not quite:-)))) It's a Private Branch Exchange, in fact ( what
we call in German a "Nebenstellenanlage" ), that is an exchange
inside a private organisation routing the inside traffic and
being connected to the public network with a few lines in a way
that the last digits ( the "extension digits" ) route you direct
to the subscriber's desk inside that organisation when dialling
from outside, thus being virtually seamless ( this is pretty
much state of the art today, but there were systems where you
had to be connected by hand when dialling in from outside -
until not that long ago.... ).

                              Karl-Max Wagner
                              karlmax@example.com
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