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From: cantor@proxy.enet.dec.com (David A. Cantor  26-Nov-1989 1345)
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Subject: Re:  Phones in the Movies
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Date: 27 Nov 89 02:42:36 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 533, message 3 of 10

In TELECOM Digest Volume 9 : Issue 518, David Lesher
<wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>, asks

>Anyone remember the 'Hot Line' in the "FLINT" movies?  Flint had a
>special phone, typically shaped as a Texas steer, (hint--guess who was
>President) to call 'upstairs'.  When it rang, it had a great sound
>that defies description.  Wish I had that for a common ringer on my
>key system.

I'm 99.44% sure that the sound was the TouchTone keys
1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-*-0-# in progression.

Dave C.