Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 3 Jun 91 15:09:40 GMT From: Darren Alex Griffiths Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Two Beepers, One Number Message-ID: Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 419, Message 9 of 9 Lines: 40 In article levitt@zorro9.fidonet.org (Ken Levitt) writes: > I own two Motorola digital pagers type BPR2000 Model A03BGB4661C. One > of them is currently receiving messages from a local beeper provider > and the other one is not. > The serial number seems to be contained on a long white plug in chip > that is labeled "Motorola Permacode Code Plug". > Is there any way to reprogram this chip or to purchase a new chip that > matches the number of my other beeper? Ick, I'm don't believe that is the most elegant way of solving the problem. I've had to deal with similar situations many times and normally you can call the provider and they will make a small change to flag both beepers during a call. The company I use makes this type of change free of charge and the cost would be the rental of two beepers plus one phone number. I suppose it would be even cheaper if you own the beepers. I also find it useful to have multiple numbers on one beeper. For example, I currently have a voice mail/pager system on one number, I primarily use this for personal stuff, and two seperate numbers that I've given to my two biggest clients. The advantage of this is that each number also has a different letter illuminated (the A B C D at the bottom of most Motorola pagers) so I have a pretty good idea who is paging me. All of this costs about $22 a month, including pager rental, which seems cheap to me. I suppose the next step would to get an alphanumeric pager and have my computer send the subject line of each mail message I receive to it, although there is a such a thing as being to available. Cheers, darren alex griffiths (415) 708-3294 dag@well.sf.ca