[fa.telecom] TELECOM Digest V5 #4

telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (07/11/85)

From: Moderator <Telecom-REQUEST@MIT-XX.ARPA>

TELECOM Digest                         Wednesday, July 10, 1985 5:55PM
Volume 5, Issue 4

Today's Topics:

                      Vadic Maxwell 2400V modem
                       SONG about 718/212 (?!?)
                      Coin Telephone Info Wanted
                           auto-dialer info
                            XMODEM and MNP

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Date: Tue, 9 Jul 85 12:37:51 edt
From: David M. Siegel <dms@mit-hermes>
Subject: Vadic Maxwell 2400V modem

I was wondering if anyone has had any experience with this product?
For example, did any unexpected problems come up with its use.

Thanks,
-Dave

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Date:     Tue, 9 Jul 85 7:48:53 EDT
From:     Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@BRL.ARPA>
Subject:  SONG about 718/212 (?!?)

This morning, on WNEW in New York, I heard Robert Warren (?) doing a short
song ( a lament ) about 718 area code.  It also mentions the passing of 212
from that part of NYC.  (In Bklyn. or Queens, there is also a 212 Cafe.)

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Date:     Tue, 9 Jul 85 15:53:27 EDT
From:     Will Martin <wmartin@BRL.ARPA>
Subject:  Coin Telephone Info Wanted

The following arose from a discussion on USENET's net.consumers newsgroup:

Quote from far back in the discussion:
>> >-->> Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone?
>> >-->> A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones 
>> >-->> for about $60, but I can't locate them now.

If those of you wanting a coin phone want one that will actually
*work* like a real coin phone -- that is, collect coins before it
allows you to dial, screen for long distance, etc., and then you expect
to collect the coins from the box yourself, I am afraid you will be
disappointed.

I believe that all the used "reconditioned" coin phones you find for
sale in mail-order catalogs, etc., have been rewired so that they are
really just ordinary phones in a coin-phone box. (I also believe that the
coin box lock has been changed from the real telco lock, if it even
locks anymore, so you can't use your key on telco phones out in the "real
world".)

I recall reading, not too many months ago, in a magazine for
electronics-products dealers (I get several, so I am unsure which it
was), that it is possible in some BOC areas to buy your own coin phone,
but you then have to contract with the BOC for the software/operator
support required, pay some ridiculous monthly fee, and then *share* the
income you collect (or they collect -- not sure there) from that phone.

It can pay for small store owners, whose coin phones are the
neighborhood's telephones in poorer areas where many people don't have
their own phones. It wouldn't pay for you to have one in your shared
apartment, if that is what you have in mind.

If anyone on the net has definitive info about this, and also about the
restrictions and modification the telcos impose on sold older coin
phones, please post the info. I think I'll mail a copy of this to the
Telecom Digest, too, to solicit info there.

Regards,
Will Martin

USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin     or   ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA

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From: crash!scotto@SDCSVAX.ARPA
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 85 16:00:51 PDT
Subject: auto-dialer info

Greetings..

    I am in need of some information as to the availability of SYNCHRONOUS
auto dialing devices.  

			Thanks,

-- Scott O'Connell

	{ihnp4, cbosgd, sdcsvax, noscvax}!crash!scotto
	 crash!scotto@ucsd  - or -  crash!scotto@nosc

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Date: Wed, 10 Jul 85 01:15:30 EDT
From: Minh N. Hoang <MINH@MIT-MC.ARPA>
Subject: XMODEM and MNP

This is a question to those who have and are using modems with MNP.

Has anyone used XMODEM while MNP is in effect? Is this possible or
do you have to turn off MNP?

I got a Microcom manual for info and from what I gleaned it seems
like I have to switch to Kermit or some protocol which do not use
all 8-bit values.

Thanks.

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