Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: CRW@icf.hrb.com (Craig R. Watkins) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Lack of Payphones (was: COCOT-in-Violation Label File) Message-ID: <13246@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 11 Oct 90 06:25:52 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: HRB Systems Lines: 22 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 728, Message 6 of 10 In article <13163@accuvax.nwu.edu>, Macy Hallock writes: > This was always a problem, even before COCOT's came into being. As a > 20+ year telephone man, I can tell you that I never, ever travel > without a butt-in and a few hand tools in my briefcase. I travel with a light (somewhat cheap) single piece phone, an RJ11 jack with spade leads and some jumper-clips (in addition to some RJ11 cables for a modem). Although quite possibly less reliable and less sturdy than the butt set, depeding upon type, it can be smaller, lighter, and certainly less expensive if you don't already have a butt set! Quite useful for voicemail, DISA, etc from non-TT hotel rooms. I second the motion on the hand tools (I recently picked up one of the small (small calculator-sized) DVM's for my case -- it was on sale at Radio Shack for around $15). Craig R. Watkins Internet: CRW@ICF.HRB.COM HRB Systems, Inc. Bitnet: CRW%HRB@PSUECL.Bitnet +1 814 238-4311 UUCP: ...!psuvax1!hrbicf!crw