Re: Pac Bell digital impact?

["John H. Kim" <jokim@tuna.mit.edu>]

On Tue, 14 May 1996, Steve Hultquist wrote:
> At 05:50 PM 5/14/96 -0700, Kate Bauer wrote:
> >
> >Pacific Bell has announced that they are changing to digital equipment and
> >say that my impact computer equipment/modems.  Any other Thinkpad owners who
> >are also subscribers to Pacific Bell?  The equipment they're installing is
> >AT&T 5ESS equipment, if that information is necessary for advice.  How will
> >this change affect Mwave/DSP units?
> 
> Shouldn't effect analog calls (using a modem) at all, as far as I can tell.
> the 5ESS has been around for a while and is a pretty nice switch.

MIT uses the 5ESS for its internal phone network including dorm phones.
I've had no problems dialing within the system on my TP750 and PCMCIA
14.4 fax/modem.
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