gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu (Gabe M Wiener) (04/23/89)
My family has a house in Litchfield, CT. Up there the ringback works a little differently. All you have to do to get one is: 1. Dial YOUR OWN number. 2. Listen for a "beep beep beep...." tone (not a reorder.....about twice as fast as a reorder). 3. Hang up 4. Wait about 10 seconds and your phone starts ringing. You can then pick up and hang up and it'll still keep ringing. 5. To stop the ringback, pick up, wait about 10 seconds with the line off hook. The beeping will stop. Then hang up and all is well again. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-\******/=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Gabe Wiener -- Columbia University \****/ "It doesn't matter how sincere it \**/ is, nor how heart-felt the spirit. INTERNET: gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu \/ Sentiment will not endear it. BITNET: gmw1@cunixc /\ What's important is the price." COMPUSERVE: 72355,1226 /**\ - Tom Lehrer WUI: 650-117-9118 /****\ on gift giving =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-/******\=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
bridge2: edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov; (04/28/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0143m03@vector.dallas.tx.us> gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia. edu (Gabe M Wiener) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 143, message 3 of 7 > >My family has a house in Litchfield, CT. Up there the ringback works a little >differently. All you have to do to get one is: > > >1. Dial your own number. [Rest of procedure deleted.] This sounds like it is a vestige of the procedure used to call another party on your party line. Was this line once a party line? Is it still? I'll bet it's an OLD central office. -edg -- {decwrl|sun|oliveb}!CSO.3com.com!Edward_Greenberg Ed Greenberg -or- 3Com Corporation {sun|hplabs}!bridge2!edg Mountain View, CA 415-694-2952