Xref: utzoo gnu.misc.discuss:3128 comp.misc:12593 comp.dcom.modems:9795 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!grr From: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.misc,comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: hayes lawsuit Message-ID: <21708@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 18 May 91 04:01:23 GMT References: <1991May13.044909.3617@netdev.comsys.com> <1991May14.001350.4394@tkou02.enet.dec.com> <1991May15.181614.7845@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <2746@moscom.UUCP> Reply-To: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com (George Robbins) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 19 In article <2746@moscom.UUCP> wjb@moscom.UUCP (Bill de Beaubien) writes: > In article <1991May15.181614.7845@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> berger@clio.sts.uiuc.edu (Mike Berger) writes: > >How about the hookswitch on a telephone? Tapping the hookswitch in a > >properly timed way would get the operator's attention, invoke special > >features, etc. Telephone hookswitches predate hayes modems. > > For that matter, you can dial with your hookswitch... a group of n taps will > dial digit n (don't try this on long distance numbers, it's easy to screw it > up :-) (I've used this feature on a phone where the digits on the pad didn't > work...) To improve the error rate, make a sawtoothed comb out of cardboard or someother convenient material. Remember back when phones had dials and there were this little keylocks you'd stick in the dial.... heh-heh... -- George Robbins - now working for, uucp: {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!grr but no way officially representing: domain: grr@cbmvax.commodore.com Commodore, Engineering Department phone: 215-431-9349 (only by moonlite)