Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) (11/03/83)
TELECOM Digest Thursday, 3 Nov 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 91
Today's Topics:
POPCORN in San Francisco
Gen Tel struggles back
1200 Baud modems
Home Wiring and Choosing Numbers In Pacific-Telephone Territory
Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #90
Bay Area time-of-day #
demo of MCImail
MCI mail
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Date: 1 Nov 1983 1425-PST
From: Lynn Gold <FIGMO at KESTREL>
Subject: POPCORN in San Francisco
POPCORN is our time number ("at the tone, the time will be...").
Actually, it's just (415) 767-nnnn where nnnn can be any four digits,
but CORN is easier to remember for most people.
--Lynn
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Date: Tuesday, 1 Nov 1983 15:19-PST
Subject: Gen Tel struggles back
From: obrien@rand-unix
I am not a true telecommunications expert (though when the
wind's in the East I know a hawk from a handsaw). However, I thought
I'd mention something that's going on in the Santa Monica/Ocean
Park/Venice area which is rather obvious to everyone living here.
For a couple of months now, Gen Tel has been replacing just
about every wire pair in the entire area. There are areas in certain
intersections which have been staked out from 8AM-5PM as Gen Tel
territory every day while people work down in manholes. New junction
boxes are going in on the streetcorners, and alleys are closed down
for days while men go up poles and replace cable, even replacing the
drops to people's houses. It ranks as one of the biggest, if more
unobtrusive, public works projects I've seen.
And, for a wonder, things are getting better. My phone used
to drop off into space down at the CO about 1/3 of the time, but now I
actually can't remember the last call that didn't complete. I never
actually thought it would happen, but Gen Tel is getting its act
together. Maybe I'll actually have an electronic exchange by the turn
of the century! (Though I'll never get call waiting. I want my data
calls to stay completed. Does this mean I'd rather talk to computers
than people?)
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Date: Tue 1 Nov 83 17:42:11-CST
From: Clive Dawson <CC.Clive@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
Subject: 1200 Baud modems
I'm starting to see more and more 1200 baud modems appearing on the
market, with the price dropping steadily to the point where they are
within reach of many people who couldn't afford them before. Has
anybody tried to put together any information to aid those of us who
are shopping around? I'm thinking of something like MIT's TERMS.INFO
file for terminals. I would hate to get stuck with a $250-$300
turkey.
The particular modem which prompted this message is the Signalman Mark
XII modem put out by Anchor Automation, Inc. I picked up a brochure
for it at DEXPO last week. It supports auto-dial and is 103/212A
compatible. An educational discount brings the price down to $265.
Does anybody have any experience with this beast?
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Date: Tuesday, 1 Nov 1983 17:16-PST
Subject: Home Wiring and Choosing Numbers In Pacific-Telephone
Subject: Territory
From: nomdenet@Rand-Unix
I want to get a second telephone line specifically for use with my
terminal. I live in Pacific-Telephone territory, and I have two
questions:
- Does Pacific Telephone permit people to do their own house
wiring?
- Do I have a choice of the line's number, or even of the last four
digits, or must I accept what Pacific assigns me?
Please respond to me, and not to the list.
TIA,
Bert White
Nomdenet @
Rand-UNIX
(213) 393-0411
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Date: 1 Nov 1983 2026-PST
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #90
From: Mike Newton <Newton@CIT-20>
In the North Bay Area (several years ago) POPCORN got you the
time, but an unknown feature of the POP prefix was that POP-0011 was
the ring- your-own phone number. (At least from the 707-64x area).
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 83 7:45:03 EST
From: Carl Moore (VLD/VMB) <cmoore@brl-vld>
Subject: Bay Area time-of-day #
I have seen 767 exchange listed in 415 as time of day, but I was never
able to call it long-distance.
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Date: Wed 2 Nov 83 08:40:34-PST
From: David Roode <ROODE@SRI-AI.ARPA>
Subject: demo of MCImail
The file <ROODE>MCIMAIL.DEMO contains a transcript of a brief demo
session with MCIMAIL. I thought some people might be curious. This
file is on host SRI-AI.
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Date: Wed, 2 Nov 83 16:41:55 EDT
From: matt%aplvax@BRL-BMD.ARPA
Subject: MCI mail
[Please ignore this letter if it is a second posting - I am unsure
whether the first one got there]
---------- I tried today to register with MCI mail and everytime it
asked for type of account (busines, etc.) I got the following message
***ADB Fatal Error*** code 1 --> 000065537 code 2 --> 000000000
%NONAME-F-NOMSG, Message number 00013D14 %TRACE-F-TRACEBACK, symbolic
stack dump follows modules name routine name line line rel PC abs PC
G5ABORT G5ABORT 12 00000016 00030092 CHXDBIO CHXDBIO 754 0000021A
0002EB92 BGNUPD BGNUPD 528 0000005F 0002B56B AUTOREG AUTOREG 1769
000005CE 000251CE
Later that same day everything worked.
Nothing like tested code, huh?
matthew diaz
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