Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 15 Jun 91 02:37 PDT From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Busying Out a Phone With a Resistor Reply-To: John Higdon Message-ID: Organization: Green Hills and Cows 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 458, Message 9 of 10 Lines: 32 lairdb@crash.cts.com (Laird P. Broadfield) writes: > Yes, John, but as we all know, you're served by a combination of an > SXS and Ernestine on a cord-board. (Seriously though, folks, > Pathetic*Bell really *is* nearly as pathetic as John makes them out to > be.) > 'Fraid though that quite a bit of CO equipment does indeed care about > load on the line, as I recall a 5ESS (or was that a DMS? fuzzy > memory) will drop dialtone *and* all but minimal battery on sensing a > full short. But as I may have mentioned, Ernestine is getting the boot in September and will be replaced by a 5ESS. This is to prepare for the introduction of CLASS services in the SF Bay Area in October. Also, I have ordered five more lines so that I can experiment with some of the features. (For those of you counting, this brings my total to fifteen.) In any event, I will most certainly try shorting one or two of them out and see if they come right back. (Although, you may be right; I remember having to call PB once to get a 5ESS line restored after it had been inadvertantly shorted at a broadcast remote location.) If you are correct about having to have a line manually restored after shorting it, this seems to be a very grave weakness in an otherwise capable switch, no? John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !