Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!bu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: jamesd@techbook.com (James Deibele) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Phony Bell Wanted (Not a Bell Phone) Message-ID: <59815@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 27 Jun 90 21:14:21 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Reply-To: James Deibele Organization: TECHbooks - Beaverton, Oregon - Public Access Unix Lines: 20 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 461, Message 12 of 12 I have call-waiting on my phone line. When someone calls, I get a little beep in my ear, but the person I'm talking to doesn't hear anything. Where I had phone service before, the caller could hear a noticeable click. Many people knew what that "click!" meant, and would pause and ask if I needed to get the other call. Since I don't have the click anymore, and some people don't ever give me the chance to get a word in edgewise, I'd like to have a bell that sounds like a phone ringing --- I'd like to keep it next to the phone, and push (or pull or turn) it as needed. Of course, if I could use it to escape from telemarketers and assorted other goons, well, that would be OK too. Has anybody seen such a thing? At a reasonable price? Thanks! jamesd@techbook.COM ...!{tektronix!nosun,uunet}!techbook!jamesd Public Access UNIX at (503) 644-8135 (1200/2400) Voice: +1 503 646-8257 Technical books mailing list --- mail "techbook!tbj-request"