Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: howell@soleast.solbourne.com (Bob Howell) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Putting A Call On Hold Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 89 17:17:44 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: @soleast.samsung.com:howell@soleast.solbourne.com Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 333, message 4 of 11 This has probably been discussed before, but I am new to reading news and I need some information. I have quite a few phones in my large house. I need to be able to answer a call, put it on hold, hang up, walk to another part of the house, pick up a different phone and resume the conversation. A couple years ago I had a device from AT&T that plugged into the 110 line voltage and into a phone jack and allowed a call to be put on hold using the flash-hook. It did the job just fine, but eventually stopped working. My local AT&T phone store said they used to sell these devices but they do not have them as a product anymore, so I could not to get another one. I also had a similar device from DAK which only plugged into the phone line, but it would not work with Call Waiting so I returned it. The AT&T device worked fine with Call Waiting, and, if I remember right, even sounded a distinct tone when the call was put on hold. Does anyone know where I can get a device like this from either AT&T or otherwise? I know you can buy phones that have hold buttons, but I don't really want to replace all the phones in my house with new ones. Thanks. Bob Howell howell@solbourne.com Solbourne Computer, Inc. ...!{boulder,sun}!stan!howell (617) 273-3313 howell%stan@boulder.colorado.edu