jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray) (12/15/83)
Yes, it is very clever: "Please check the number and dial again, or call your operator..." I bet the phone company could use that.
rpw3@fortune.UUCP (01/06/84)
#R:bbncca:-39100:fortune:3500006:000:591
fortune!rpw3 Jan 6 11:06:00 1984
Gee.. I must be lucky. I tried the DECtalk number as soon as I saw the
article, and it worked real swell! I just tried it again 2 minutes ago,
and it still works...
Maybe you got the number wrong. The number I used was (617)493-8255.
(Answered on third ring)
Maybe your phone system is fritzed (or your phone company). I called
from Pacific Telephone... oops PacTel... oops Pacific Bell. (I'll
get it right eventually)
Rob Warnock
UUCP: {sri-unix,amd70,hpda,harpo,ihnp4,allegra}!fortune!rpw3
DDD: (415)595-8444
USPS: Fortune Systems Corp, 101 Twin Dolphins Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray) (01/09/84)
Again, it was a combination of both me and the Phone Company (now NYNEX in these parts) being slightly fritzed. I though the 493 was a local exchange for me (it wasn't) and so didn't prefix with 1. Instead of getting the correct "You Must Dial One" type message, I repeatedly got the "Not In Service" or somesuch type thing. The humor of having a machine telling me that I couldn't talk to the machine I was calling got to me, so I wisecracked about it. More on the Phone Company: recently, when I have tried to dial into my system, I have got I think a "Has Been Disconnected" message when in fact the line was not disconnected and was almost certainly just busy. I never to my knowledge got these sorts of bum steers from The Phone Company. I wonder if there is something weird about the local service... --Jim Bray (decvax!bbncca!jbray)
ljdickey@watmath.UUCP (Lee Dickey) (01/12/84)
I tried the number several times. It was busy.
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Lee Dickey, University of Waterloo. (ljdickey@watmath.UUCP)
...!allegra!watmath!ljdickey
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