Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 20 Jun 91 11:10:19 EDT From: "76012,300 Brad Hicks" <76012.300@compuserve.com> Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Hook Tapping Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 472, Message 2 of 11 Lines: 25 In TELECOM Digest vol 11, #471, Dan Shapin asked: > How do you place a call with out dialing it using the "Hook > tapping" method. Does it work on any phone? I used to do this to call out for pizza from the electronics lab at my college, which had a phone that was technically for inbound calls only. Pick up the handset, then lightly "tap" the switch-hook, the number of times equal to the first digit, as fast as you can while still making the button travel all the way down and all the way back up. Pause a half-second or so, then repeat for the second digit, and so forth. Zero=ten clicks. What you are doing is simulating the clicks of a pulse-dial phone. It takes patience, a steady hand, and a phone that has good "travel" on its switch-hook (most of the old ones, very few of the $5 cheapies), but it can be done. [Personal replies to jbhicks@mcimail.com, please; it's cheaper. Thanks!]