Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Dave Fiske Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phones in the Movies Message-ID: <1742@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 1 Dec 89 21:43:22 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: BRS Info Technologies, Latham NY Lines: 38 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 544, message 8 of 8 In article , cantor@proxy.enet. dec.com (David A. Cantor 26-Nov-1989 1345) writes: > In TELECOM Digest Volume 9 : Issue 518, David Lesher > , 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 > I'm 99.44% sure that the sound was the TouchTone keys > 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-*-0-# in progression. Sorry, but I don't think that's right. I was fascinated with the sequence as a boy, and remember it pretty clearly. Unfortunately, I'm not a musician, so I can't provide the correct note values, but the following represents the notes relative to each other. (Read across from the left. The small dee's are staccato, and the big DEE's are a tad longer in duration.) DEE DEE dee dee dee dee dee dee DEE DEE dee dee dee DEE dee dee dee dee dee dee Also, I don't remember that they sounded particularly multi-frequency. I think they were just single tones, but I could be wrong on this. "CROOK ROBS 16 BANKS -- Dave Fiske (davef@brspyr1.BRS.COM) WITH A CUCUMBER" Home: David_A_Fiske@cup.portal.com Headline from Weekly World News CIS: 75415,163 GEnie: davef