modding a phone handset for pc use

Well I was going to say I was sorry, I went over it all and found what I was looking at wrong. But since you wanna jump all over me Ill just remember this and move on... .

Anyway since I was thinking about a fully functional phone the simplicity of what you were saying just made me take something and run with it and not look at what was going on. I looked at this topic the wrong way and didnt look things up for accurate info I went off info that I coudlnt clearly remember and havent fully tested.

So if anyone else has a problem with me get my aim name and lets talk

miao said:

what model of phone is this?

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It's a NorthWestern Bell desktop phone with digital answering machine, or rather just the handset from one. Digimate 1660.
I like to have one corded phone for power failures etc..

Oh, one thing I'd forgot to mention, the green/red pair are the center two contacts in a plug, the yellow/black are the next two out. For six pin jacks and cords, blue/white are the third pair (the outermost two pins).

Ya'll have a great night.

Hey buddy, there's no problems. I didn't mean to sound like I was jumping all over ya...sorry for that.
It's all good!

Ahoy ahoy everyone, I'm thread monitoring.

Same here. I've got no problems with you at all.

wont work with pots (plain old telephone service) handset

The microphone from an old style land line phone is a carbon compression mike. When spoken to the carbon compresses and varies the resistance of the mike. in order for this to work there needs to be a voltage on the mike. this is not available from the 3.5 mm port on your device so it wont work.