Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!spool.mu.edu!telecom-request From: FLINTON@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Fred E.J. Linton) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Hook Tapping Message-ID: Date: 22 Jun 91 21:17:38 GMT Article-I.D.: eecs.telecom11.477.6 Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 21 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 477, Message 6 of 11 In gypsy@silver.lcs.mit.edu (The Gypsy) writes: > "Hook Tapping" can be used in most (all?) areas to dial a telephone - > by imitating a 'pulse-dial' telephone. You simply 'tap' down the > 'hook' for a brief second (much less than a second actually) the > number of times required to produce a 'digit.' Knowing this quaint fact helped rescue a musical group I once belonged to when it found itself locked within the building where it had just finished giving a performance -- we found a telephone, of the rotary persuasion, with a padlocked dial, and were forced to dial out for help by hook-tapping. As you need to hook-tap at the rate of about 0.1 sec per tap for each digit, a certain amount of technique must be developed -- two coordinated hands worked best for our drummer, the only one to succeed at this curious game. Fred or