Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 05 Jun 91 15:08:05 EDT From: "Steven S. Brack" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Rotary Dial Phones Forgotten But Not Gone Message-ID: Organization: Blue Moon BBS ((614) 868-998[0][2][4]) 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 433, Message 8 of 13 Lines: 26 cbmvax!.UUCP!robert@uunet.uu.net (Robert L. Oliver) writes: > It makes flashing easier: you don't have that annoying problem of > trying to flash but realizing that you haven't held the hook down long > enough. Used to happen to me all the time until I convinced our ITT > maintenance people to change the flash interval; it was ridiculously > high. On our NT SL100 PBX, the individual 2500 sets have a "tap" button, which, pressed once, sends a flash of the correct length. It seems to be some sort of capacitor arrangement, but since OSU is more paranoid than ATT about people opening up their phones, I haven't investigated. The tap button also houses the voicemail waiting lamp. This lamp also lights when ring current is applied to the instrument. What is the relation between the light and the ringer? Steven S. Brack | sbrack%bluemoon@nstar.rn.com Jacob E. Taylor Honors Tower | sbrack@bluemoon.uucp The Ohio State University | sbrack@nyx.cs.du.edu 50 Curl Drive | sbrack@isis.cs.du.edu Columbus, Ohio 43210-1112 USA | brack@ewf.eng.ohio-state.edu +1 614 293 7383 or 419 474 1010 | Steven.S.Brack@osu.edu