telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (05/05/85)
From: Jon Solomon (the Moderator) <Telecom-Request@BBNCCA>
TELECOM Digest Sun, 5 May 85 12:41:35 EDT Volume 4 : Issue 188
Today's Topics:
1985 Staten Island, NYC call guide
DTN
Pay phone earpiece
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Date: Sat, 4 May 85 9:54:31 EDT
From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@Brl.ARPA>
To: telecom@Brl.ARPA
Subject: 1985 Staten Island, NYC call guide
Message unit zones, which formerly ran thru southern Westchester and
out to Amityville, Cold Spring Harbor & Farmingdale near the Nassau/
Suffolk border, now also include northern Westchester, Putnam, Rockland
and a small part of Orange (latter 2 across the Hudson!) and also
western Suffolk as far east as Bellport.
Goof in list of zones? It says dial 1+718 for Brooklyn, Queens, S.I.
(and 1+area code for 212,914,516 area points).
Calls within New York Metropolitan LATA (includes Greenwich & Byram in
Connecticut?) are billed by N.Y.Telephone, along with calls to 5 N.J.
counties: Passic, Bergen, Essex, Union, Hudson. (It has been noted else-
where that phone prefixes can cross county lines.)
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Date: Sat, 4 May 85 9:55:16 EDT
From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@Brl.ARPA>
To: telecom@Brl.ARPA
Subject: DTN
I saw DTN in a message header today. Is that some sort of phone #?
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Date: Sat, 4 May 85 07:53:32 pdt
From: schoch@Berkeley (Steve Schoch)
To: telecom@Berkeley
Subject: Pay phone earpiece
Cc:
I have an earpiece I got from a vandalized phone and noticed that the
terminals were connected to a coil of wire that goes around the whole thing
(the coil is made of thin wire 1 3/4 inch diameter). At first I thought it
was the speaker coil, but when I disconnected this coil, the earpiece still
worked.
Does this coil have something to do with magnetic coupling devices that
might be attached to the phone? I can't think of any other use for it as
it doesn't seem to affect the operation at all.
Steve Schoch
schoch@berkeley
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