telecom@ucbvax.ARPA (05/02/85)
From: Jon Solomon (the Moderator) <Telecom-Request@BBNCCA>
TELECOM Digest Wed, 1 May 85 22:41:15 EDT Volume 4 : Issue 186
Today's Topics:
The INSTRUCTION BOOKLET for a DEMON DIALER...
Pay phones and hearing Aids
Re: Phone line surge protection
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Date: 30 Apr 85 8:23 EST
From: James A. Dorf <stdtjad%BOSTONU.bitnet@WISCVM.ARPA>
Subject: The INSTRUCTION BOOKLET for a DEMON DIALER...
To: telecom@bbncca.arpa
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Hi folks. I have the 92-memory-location DEMON DIALER which I can
definately recommend as a full-function auto-dialer but since it's
purchase a couple of years ago I have LOST the instruction booklet.
If anyone has a copy of this booklet, please simply reply with your
SNAIL-MAIL address and I will gladly mail you a postage-paid return
envelope plus photocopying costs (if necessary).
Please give this a high priority folken, I am rather desperate but
if no one has one around I can always just dig up the manufacturers
address and phone # and get it from them...
Thanks and warm regards/jad
p.s. If anyone wants to hear about all the f a b u l o u s features
of the Demon Dialer, let me know... I should be a salesman for them!/j
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 85 21:37 EST
From: bhawkins%umass-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
To: telecom@bbncca.ARPA
Subject: Pay phones and hearing Aids
What has Bell done with their new Pay phones to keep me
from hearing dial tone and ring tone with my hearing aid? I have
heard rumors that there was going to be trouble with magnetic
coupling to the telephone loops that most hearing aids have, but
I rarely use that (occasionally in noisy environments); I just
use regular acoustic coupling and always have got along fine.
But suddenly the last two times I have used a pay phone (in both
cases they looked new) I can't hear either tone (and for all I
know I can't hear the busy tone either). Speech volume also
seems less than usual. The first time I thought it was something
wrong with the phones and went down the whole bank of them, all
the same.
Needless to say, I am angry. Suddenly I am more
handicapped than I used to be. Phones at home and the office are
fine.
Bruce Hawkins
bhawkins@umass-cs@csnet-relay
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 85 21:43 EST
From: bhawkins%umass-cs.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa
To: telecom@bbncca.ARPA
Subject: Re: Phone line surge protection
> I just recently came across a data processing products catalog and saw
> an interesting gizmo, a phone surge suppressor. Does anybody really use
> these type of devices? If so, why? Also, if I have a home computer
> that is always on and everything, should I consider purchasing one of
> these items?
A year ago, I had a lightning strike a quarter-mile from
my house. No damage was done to either computer (both were off
at the time), but it took out my modem (Anchor XII). So when I
saw a phone-line surge suppressor for $19, I ordered it
immediately. It seems to be invisible (inaudible?): it has not
introduced any problems that I am aware of. I haven't had any
more lightning strikes, either, so I can't tell you how effective
it is.
Bruce Hawkins
bhawkins@umass-cs
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