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From: slr@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Rhoades)
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Subject: Re: Sports Stadium Use of a "Dedicated" Phone
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Date: 19 Oct 90 18:07:39 GMT
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In article <13758@accuvax.nwu.edu> cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB) writes:

>Would it be possible for a baseball dugout to have phones connecting
>only to, say, the bullpen?  (That is, take the phone off the hook and
>it automatically rings that other location, such as you might see in
>an airport for a car-rental company.)

I work for the Los Angeles Coliseum on weekends and we have a phone in
the video control center labeled "Raider Hotline".  Basically, it's a
ringdown from Raider management to us.  It has a strange ring - It's
one, long, continuous ring until we answer.  It rarely ever rings but
when it does, we jump :-).

On a related note, Pac*Bell here in California offers a service called
Direct*Connection.  You lift the receiver of the calling phone and it
places a call to whomever is pre-programmed.  The phone instrument is
normal - It's a class of service set up in the CO.  They are starting
to replace the system used by our emergency highway call boxes with
this system. (rings down to the highway patrol) They're also being
used as emergency phones in elevators.


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