Paul B. Wrote:

>  Is that actually documented so?  I can't see how they do it.  In fact,
>I still haven't figured (without recourse to the documentation which I
>trust *is* readily available on the site) whether this system is analog
>or digital.
>
>  If analog, then duplexing must be on the basis of a characteristic
>impedance and grounding would be *critical* to the system.  Tying three
>lines together would create an impedance mismatch which would increase
>side-tone to each station as it speaks.
>
>  If digital, then it uses either time-division multiplexing (CSMA/CD)
>which would be adaptable to multiple stations, or ternary multiplexing
>which would have exactly the same problem tying multiple lines as an
>analog system, but would be far more noise-tolerant.
>
>  If you know the answers to the above, *then* you might be in a
>position to figure the two-wire version relatively easily.

I could duct-tape 48 SLICs together, wrap them in aluminium wire, dip them
into a solder bath for 4 hours, pull them out, douse them in vanilla
pudding, parade them down an obscure avenue in Chicago, paint them with
stars and stripes, nominate them for president, back them out in a shroud of
controversy, put them on my head, spin around 39 times, connect them to a
450 VAC, 46.9 Hz, 900 KA power supply then smuggle them into Manitoba and
buy a bottle of water for them, followed by spitting on them and gluing
them, with sheep mucus, to the front right fender of a '58 ford Fairlane. I
could then use an oxygen lance and cut the front half of the Fairlane off
and sell it to a podiatrist, but not before peeling of the 48 SLICs and,
using woodworkers glue, 3 cans of baked beans, a bottle of MSG and a steam
roller, affix them to a PCB made out of wax, nail filings and kitty litter.

Am I in a position to do that?

- Keelan Lightfoot