Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!ucsd!brian
From: brian@ucsd.EDU (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Touchtones
Message-ID: <1811@ucsd.EDU>
Date: 2 Jul 89 22:48:26 GMT
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Reply-To: brian@ucsd.edu (Brian Kantor)
Organization: The Avant-Garde of the Now, Ltd.
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In an article, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>If you really want to embarrass a modem manufacturer, ask them if their
>modems can dial A-D.  (Some of them can't even dial "*" and "#"!)

And then there's the USR 1200 bps modems we had here that dial a '#' when
you tell them to dial a '*' and vice-versa.  Newer firmware fixed
that, but strangely enough that fix isn't on their list of firmware
revisions.  I'd be embarrased to admit it too.
	- Brian