Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) (10/03/83)
TELECOM Digest Monday, 3 Oct 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 65
Today's Topics:
6 wires for a phone
6 wires for a phone
sri-csl<geoff>house.doc
Public Telephone Directories
cordless phone DX-ing, Long distance DA charges
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Date: 28 Sep 1983 0626-PDT
From: Lynn Gold <FIGMO at KESTREL>
Subject: 6 wires for a phone
Weren't the other two wires there to carry the current for the light
on the old princess phones?
--Lynn
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Date: Wed, 28 Sep 83 20:23:41 PDT
From: Theodore N. Vail <vail@UCLA-CS>
Subject: 6 wires for a phone
Date: 28 Sep 1983 0626-PDT
From: Lynn Gold <FIGMO at KESTREL>
Subject: 6 wires for a phone
To: Telecom at KESTREL, Vail at UCLA-CS
Address: Kestrel Institute, 1801 Page Mill Rd., Palo Alto, CA
94304
Phone: (415) 494-2233
Weren't the other two wires there to carry the current for the
light on the old princess phones?
--Lynn
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It's been a long time since I looked at a Princess phone, but as I
recall it used 4 wires: The customary two for talk-ring-dial and two
for the light.
The "trend-line" phones used to (and some still do) use 5. Four as
above, and the fifth was used to enable party identification. This
latter is unnecessary on single-party lines.
vail
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Date: 29 September 1983 13:19 EDT
From: Jeffrey R. Del Papa <DP @ MIT-ML>
Subject: sri-csl<geoff>house.doc
is now available as ml:users1;house doc
enjoy,
jeff
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Date: Thu, 29 Sep 83 09:59 EDT
From: Damouth.Wbst@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: Public Telephone Directories
Rochester Telephone has quietly removed the directory from all public
coin-operated telephones (the Airport seems to be an exception). Is
this a local phenomenon, or wide-spread? They claim that it is better
to dial Directory Assistance than to use a (often mutilated) paper
directory. Assuming this is true, we have still lost a major public
service: the most convenient way to find a restaurant, hospital, or
whatever, in an unfamiliar city or even an unfamiliar part of your own
city, has always been to stop at the nearest phone booth and look in
the Directory. Any comments on the most effective way to get these
directories reinstated? Presumably, funding should come from local
governments or business associations, since the benefits are not
directly telephone-related.
/Dave
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Date: 29 Sep 83 21:00:33 PDT (Thu)
From: jmrubin%UCBCORAL.CC@Berkeley (Joel Rubin)
Subject: cordless phone DX-ing, Long distance DA charges
Some people who have shortwave radios are now tuning into their
neighbor's cordless phones, and there has been information on this
topic in the magazine Popular Communications and on the program World
of Radio (WRNO shortwave, and some NPR stations) It is generally
regarded as legal in the U.S. to tune to "utility" stations (which is
what a cordless phone is) as long as you don't reveal the contents or
take advantage of it. (International regulations are stricter)
I think N.Y. Telephone counts any Directory Assistance call within
N.Y. State as counting against your local D.A. allocation.
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