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Peter Parry
 
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On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 21:57:23 -0000, Colin Wilson
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Easy - hook up the connections numbered 2, 3 and 5 with the same colours,
and you`re good to go, 2-red 3-blue 5-black. ISTR you could actually do
it with 2 cores, but the third may help if you have some really old
telephone equipment


Quite a lot of modern phones require the ringing signal on pin 3 - it
certainly isn't needed just for older equipment.

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