Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) (11/02/83)
TELECOM Digest Wednesday, 2 Nov 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 90
Today's Topics:
Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #89
212 modem experience with MCI
S.F. Popcorn (V3, #89)
Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #88
Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #89
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Date: Mon 31 Oct 83 21:26:43-PST
From: John Reuling <Reuling@SU-SIERRA.ARPA>
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #89
on trivia-
No, POPCORN gets you time of day in San Francisco (as well as in the
rest of 415). To get Weather in 415, call WENDELL!
-John
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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 83 13:47:00 EDT
From: scrod!johnl%ima@BRL-BMD.ARPA
From: John Levine@BRL-BMD.ARPA, The I.E.C.C.@BRL-BMD.ARPA,
Subject: 212 modem experience with MCI
I use MCI all the time for 1200 baud modem communications. When I can
get through, it works fine without noticably more glitching than Bell.
(Getting through is a pain because I'm using the Boston MCI "credit
card" access number which is often busy. The regular access which I
use from home works fine.)
On another note, I am dubious about claims that the Vadic protocol is
much more noise-resistant than is 212. On a Vadic modem it is, but
the Vadic modem is an ancient design. Modern modems may well do as
well with 212 as Vadic does with 3400.
John Levine, ima!johnl and/or Levine@YALE.ARPA
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 83 06:51:13 PST
From: jmrubin%ucbcoral.CC@Berkeley (Joel Rubin)
Subject: S.F. Popcorn (V3, #89)
No, it's time that's P-O-P-C-O-R-N in S.F. (actually 767-abcd)
Weather is 936-abcd. (or WE6 if you prefer)
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Date: 1 Nov 83 08:41:18 PST (Tuesday)
From: Sabiers.es@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #88
Ron,
If my memory serves me, POPCORN (or 767-xxxx, where x is any number)
gives the caller the time in Northern California (Pacific Telephone
territory).
Now a helpless GTE customer, Mark
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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 83 09:47 PST
From: Swenson.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #89
"Wasn't it in San Francisco that you dialed POPCORN for the weather."
In the Bay Area, time, not weather, was ROchester 7-8900. Actually,
RO7- NNNN, where n is non-zero and perhaps non-1. POPCORN works.
Bob Swenson
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