e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (e118 student) (04/03/89)
The make/break ratios in the US and UK are different, but the ratio isn't terribly critical (at least in US). I discovered some years ago that I can dial by clicking the switchhook rapidly. One time I even dialed 9-1-214-233-2768 successfully by this method. Obviously my fingers weren't carefully figuring out whether I was using a 39/61 ratio or 33/67, so I suspect there is a high tolerance in the system for slop. --Linc Madison = e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu Disclaimers: I speak my own mind. The telephone number listed above no longer belongs to anyone I know, but please don't call it.
patth@phri.uucp (Patt Haring) (04/08/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0122m04@vector.UUCP> e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (e118 student) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 122, message 4 of 7 >The make/break ratios in the US and UK are different, but the ratio >isn't terribly critical (at least in US). I discovered some years ago >that I can dial by clicking the switchhook rapidly. One time I even >dialed 9-1-214-233-2768 successfully by this method. Obviously my My parents put a lock on our telephone (old-fashioned dial; not touch-tone) to keep ** ME ** from using the phone after school when my father nearly had a coronary after opening the monthly phone bill. Well, that didn't stop me - I just used the switch hook same technique as described above! Poor dad, still couldn't figure out why the phone bill was so high ;-) P.S. Office maintenance personnel use locked telephones in exactly the same way; if your office phone is busy at 11 PM when you're trying to dial in then you can count on one of the cleaning people using your phone to call Santo Domingo, Honduras or Mexico :-) I had to pick up some documents in my office late one night before proceeding to the printer to read galleys and when I opened my boss' locked office door -- there she was -- with one of his tub chairs rolled over to the telephone table by the sofa : her feet were up on the table while she smoked her cigarette and talked long distance on ** HIS ** phone to her relatives in Santo Domingo. We had been having some trouble figuring out who was calling Santo Domingo at that late hour (the phone had a lock on it) since we had no clients in that country B-) -- Patt Haring rutgers!cmcl2!ccnysci!patth patth@ccnysci.BITNET
ch%maths.tcd.ie@cunyvm.cuny.edu (Charles Bryant) (04/13/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0122m04@vector.UUCP> e118-ak@euler.berkeley.edu (e118 student) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 122, message 4 of 7 >The make/break ratios in the US and UK are different, but the ratio >isn't terribly critical (at least in US). I discovered some years ago >that I can dial by clicking the switchhook rapidly. One time I even >dialed 9-1-214-233-2768 successfully by this method. Obviously my >fingers weren't carefully figuring out whether I was using a 39/61 >ratio or 33/67, so I suspect there is a high tolerance in the system >for slop. The ratio can be wildly wrong and stil work. I once tested a modem that had the make and break reversed and it still worked fine. -- Charles Bryant. Working at Datacode Electronics Ltd. (Modem manufacturers)