Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) (10/14/83)
TELECOM Digest Friday, 14 Oct 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 74
Today's Topics:
Re: Call Waiting on Data Line
Imprisoned in a telephone booth...
Poor Bryant Pond...
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Date: Wed 12 Oct 83 19:17:50-EDT
From: Gene Hastings <HASTINGS@CMU-CS-C.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Call Waiting on Data Line
In response to Schuttenberg.Dbu@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS (I can't
get there from here):
The only way around getting interrupted by call waiting that I
know of requires that you also have call forwarding: before dialing up
your host, forward your phone to some innocuous number-for some reason
(at least in this area) you don't get the beep then. (By innocuous I
mean something on the order of "busy trunk" [if there is one in your
area and you can find it out], or weather, time, etc. or if you aren't
real concerned about the ears of your caller, you could forward to
your dialup (actually that would work fine if you were using the only
dialin, or used the highest number on the search). Otherwise, live
with it (and hope the host detatches on disconnects, or at worst logs
you off) or get another line with budget service and forward to it
(easier to bear if you are sharing accomodations, or can get your
department to support it).
Gene
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Date: 12-Oct-1983 23:33
From: decwrl!rhea!castor!j_covert
From: <decwrl!rhea!castor!j_covert@su-shasta>
Subject: Imprisoned in a telephone booth...
>From the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, 13 September 1983
Lock snaps shut --
Man captured inside telephone booth
A 47 year old Yugoslav became a prisoner of technology in a telephone
booth in Goetheplatz Sunday night. Just after 10 PM he was calling a
compatriot when the lock, which is normally only used to lock the
booths when the phone is out of order, snapped shut.
The rain-soaked man, who was also plagued by an urgent call of nature,
first tried to make passers-by aware of his unfortunate situation.
After a half an hour of useless effort he reported his emergency to
the fire department emergency number (112) but could not make himself
understood to the clerk at the emergency reporting center.
However, just to be sure, the clerk sent a radio-dispatched emergency
car to the telephone booth. The emergency crew finally facilitated
his release. -tom
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Date: 13-Oct-1983 00:11
From: decwrl!rhea!castor!j_covert
From: <decwrl!rhea!castor!j_covert@su-shasta>
Subject: Poor Bryant Pond...
With the "new" step CDO which was installed up there the subscribers
lost the custom calling features they had...
Call Forwarding.
Speed Calling.
Call Waiting.
All of these could be provided by the old "number please" board.
Although I don't know how often it was... those operators were quite
busy; Bryant Pond was no sleepy little town with a single operator
answering the board in between milking the cows.
The last time I visited both operators were handling calls as fast as
they could put them up and take them down; more than half the cord
pairs seemed to always be at use at any point in time.
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