The tightwad fix is to bodge a PP3 battery onto a line splitter, which is
often enough to convince modems that there is a phone line. There is no
dial tone nor ring signal, so you need to turn off dial tone detection on
the calling modem ("ATX1", IIRC) and somehow tell the answering computer to
send "ATA" to answer at the right time.
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018, Grant Taylor via cctalk wrote:
Sounds like an interesting hack. But should probably be good enough for most
of what is desired.
I'm going to have to look into this.
If you don't need the "handshake" for dialtone, ring, caller-ID, etc.,
then all you need is some electric power.
For MAXIMUM realism, then the "answer" end should also get occasional
random "wrong number", incoming fax, "I'm calling to offer you a great
deal on" (I don't listen past that).
