Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!brl-bmd!Telecom-Request@usc-eclc From: Telecom-Request%usc-eclc@brl-bmd.UUCP (Telecom-Request@usc-eclc) Newsgroups: fa.telecom Subject: TELECOM Digest V3 #74 Message-ID: <670@brl-bmd.UUCP> Date: Thu, 13-Oct-83 20:16:08 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-bmd.670 Posted: Thu Oct 13 20:16:08 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 14-Oct-83 21:17:47 EDT Lines: 89 TELECOM Digest Friday, 14 Oct 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 74 Today's Topics: Re: Call Waiting on Data Line Imprisoned in a telephone booth... Poor Bryant Pond... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed 12 Oct 83 19:17:50-EDT From: Gene Hastings Subject: Re: Call Waiting on Data Line In response to Schuttenberg.Dbu@HIS-PHOENIX-MULTICS (I can't get there from here): The only way around getting interrupted by call waiting that I know of requires that you also have call forwarding: before dialing up your host, forward your phone to some innocuous number-for some reason (at least in this area) you don't get the beep then. (By innocuous I mean something on the order of "busy trunk" [if there is one in your area and you can find it out], or weather, time, etc. or if you aren't real concerned about the ears of your caller, you could forward to your dialup (actually that would work fine if you were using the only dialin, or used the highest number on the search). Otherwise, live with it (and hope the host detatches on disconnects, or at worst logs you off) or get another line with budget service and forward to it (easier to bear if you are sharing accomodations, or can get your department to support it). Gene ------------------------------ Date: 12-Oct-1983 23:33 From: decwrl!rhea!castor!j_covert From: Subject: Imprisoned in a telephone booth... >From the Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, 13 September 1983 Lock snaps shut -- Man captured inside telephone booth A 47 year old Yugoslav became a prisoner of technology in a telephone booth in Goetheplatz Sunday night. Just after 10 PM he was calling a compatriot when the lock, which is normally only used to lock the booths when the phone is out of order, snapped shut. The rain-soaked man, who was also plagued by an urgent call of nature, first tried to make passers-by aware of his unfortunate situation. After a half an hour of useless effort he reported his emergency to the fire department emergency number (112) but could not make himself understood to the clerk at the emergency reporting center. However, just to be sure, the clerk sent a radio-dispatched emergency car to the telephone booth. The emergency crew finally facilitated his release. -tom ------------------------------ Date: 13-Oct-1983 00:11 From: decwrl!rhea!castor!j_covert From: Subject: Poor Bryant Pond... With the "new" step CDO which was installed up there the subscribers lost the custom calling features they had... Call Forwarding. Speed Calling. Call Waiting. All of these could be provided by the old "number please" board. Although I don't know how often it was... those operators were quite busy; Bryant Pond was no sleepy little town with a single operator answering the board in between milking the cows. The last time I visited both operators were handling calls as fast as they could put them up and take them down; more than half the cord pairs seemed to always be at use at any point in time. ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest *********************