Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: elroy!grian!alex@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Alex Pournelle) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Pac*Bell Phones at Dulles? Message-ID: <9690@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 12 Jul 90 07:20:46 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Workman & Associates Lines: 39 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 480, Message 4 of 8 Alan Parker writes: >The movie wasn't filmed at Dulles. The folks there didn't like the >way the script portrayed the airport and its employees. Being a resident of La-La Land (and columnist-on-hiatus of "Computing in La-La Land -- another story), I get (?) the pleasure (?) of reading the Los Angeles Chandler Shopping Network, commonly called The Times by itself and "that rag" by anyone else... The Sunday Calendar section column "Outtakes", which first broke :-) the Pac*Bellophone coin-op phone story in Die Harder 2: The Expensive Version, mentions that much of the interior was shot at the Bradley Building, the international terminal at LAX. Anyone who's been through there should recognize it, too -- look for the occasional triangle-ladder supports along the walls, and the upper concourse. As far as phones are concerned -- who makes those spacy new Pac*Bellerophon coin/credit phones? They are sure Art Direction Award Winning devices. The new baggage handling and retrieval area at Union Station has 'em, too -- though the just-as-new (both are just finishing construction) UC Irvine Student center building has the older, traditional, coin-op phones in its lobby. Wonder how P*B*J has decided who gets 'em? Oh, and only two of the Irvine Payphones I played with were misprogrammed, one had no transmit audio after connection to the operator, the other didn't accept DTMF after dailing 0+number+#. Compare this to oh-for-four on one bank of (*^&& coCOTs, and eight-for-eight on the new spacyphones at Union Station. (Yes, I reported all of them. It's bloody difficult to page somone when you can't dial DTMF after call completion!) Alex Pournelle, freelance thinker Also: Workman & Associates, Data recovery for PCs, Macs, others ...elroy!grian!alex; BIX: alex; voice: (818) 791-7979 fax: (818) 794-2297 bbs: 791-1013; 8N1 24/12/3