Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: mjw06513@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mary J Winters) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Caller ID Device Message-ID: Date: 9 Nov 89 13:49:57 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: mjw06513@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Mary J Winters) Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Lines: 17 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 501, message 8 of 9 Some months back, I chanced upon several BBS sysops discussing the caller ID service in a (gasp!) FidoNet ECHO Conference. They were using homemade devices(!) to display the caller's phone number and feed it to their computers. They seemed to have gotten a hold of some schematic for the device and were passing it around. Of course I didn't pay much attention to all of this at the time, and so now that I'm interested in obtaining such a device I can't remember any of the important details. My questions are these: Are the plans for this device still available? If I do manage to build one, will the device work for caller ID in all areas, or do different telcos use different schemes for transmitting the information? Many Thanks, Mary