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From: bender@oobleck.Eng.Sun.COM (Michael Bender)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: DETAILS PLEASE
Message-ID: <5531@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 9 Jan 91 03:14:44 GMT
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In article <1991Jan9.000417.4365@amd.com> lpdjb@brahms.amd.com (Jerry Bemis) writes:
->I want detailed info on how to decode the phone number of
->the person calling when my phone rings.  so far i understand that the
->data comes between the 1st & 2nd rings and that it is tone encoded.
->
->Does it use telephone dialling tones of which there are 7 that come 2 
->at a time?  Or modem tones--what baud rate?
->What is the tone encoding?  Is it ascii data or BCD?
->
->Are there any mags. that explane the system?
->Has the FCC written an OST on the subject?
->where is the system documented?
->
->IS THERE ANOUTHER NEWS GROUP I SHOULD SEND THIS TO?
->
->I think the device in Nuts & Volts is overpriced.  I'd rather make my own.

yes, try comp.dcom.telecom for an additional place to discuss
this - they just had a few comments about CID and call waiting
and so on.

mike

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