Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!security!genrad!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 #76 Message-ID: <673@brl-bmd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 16-Oct-83 00:04:47 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-bmd.673 Posted: Sun Oct 16 00:04:47 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 18-Oct-83 00:00:45 EDT Lines: 148 TELECOM Digest Sunday, 16 Oct 1983 Volume 3 : Issue 76 Today's Topics: Re: Phone Wiring General Information Getting their facts straight... MCI Mail FX Lines ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Friday, 14 Oct 1983 17:40-PDT Subject: Re: Phone Wiring General Information From: nomdenet@Rand-Unix Try You & Your Telephone by Tom Rogers Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc. Indianapolis, Indiana 46268 99 pp. I stumbled upon this book while glancing at the book rack in a radio parts & components store. The book concerns itself with (home) telephone basics -- dialling (pulse & DTMF), ringing, the handset, the network, loading (how many phones can be put on one line), do-it-yourself wiring -- and con tains nothing on telephone services like automatic diallers, MCI, Sprint, etc. Its explanation of home wiring is very good, covering the station protec- tor, station wire, color coding, receptacles, and specialized tools. The book also describes a wiring and modular cord test set, a schematic, and instructions for its use. Chapters 1 Should You Buy or Rent? 2 The Telephone System 3 Old Telephones 4 Dialing 5 The Handset 6 The Network (including a schematic diagram) 7 Ringing (explains Ringer Equivalence Numbers) 8 Talking 9 Home Wiring 10 Receptacls and Connecting Points (Blocks) 11 Station Equipment 12 Specialized Tools Appendices A Troubleshooting B Numerical List of Area Codes C Federal Communications Commission Rules D Index of Manufacturers and Suppliers A. R. White nomdenet @ Rand-UNIX (213) 393-0411, x7997 ------------------------------ Date: 15 Oct 1983 0828-EDT From: John R. Covert Subject: Getting their facts straight... An article by Brian Flanigan and Colin Covert (no relation) of the Knight Ridder Service reports on the group of Detroit teenagers headed by "The Wizard of ARPANET" who, the article states, "claims to have penetrated ARPAnet, a highly secure Defense Department telephone network that serves military computers." The article goes on to say, "The network carries sensitive information on phone lines reserved for military use." ------------------------------ Date: Sat 15 Oct 83 10:16:04-PDT From: Jim Celoni S.J. Subject: MCI Mail When I couldn't register for MCI mail on 800-323-7751 (is there a "new user" name and password?), I called local MCI sales; they referred me to 800-MCI-MAIL. They didn't know anything but referred me to 800-MCI-CALL, where I found out the service offers four kinds of messages: Instant letter: direct from sender's terminal to another subscriber's; $1/"ounce" (7500 chars) to send, free to read. (Like ARPAgrams but more expensive) Overnight letter: from you to one of their laser printing centers to destination by noon the next day via Purolator Courier. (System will tell you whether PC serves the area.) $6. 4-hr letter: to printer to destination within 4 hr via PC (only 15 areas now). $25. Letter: to printer to destination via U. S. mail, usually arrives within 24 hr. $2. Sender (and instant mail receiver) can use any access numbers (all in "welcome kit"). Bill comes each month with nonzero charges. +j [The way to register is to use username REGISTER, password REGISTER. --JSol] ------------------------------ Date: 15 October 1983 13:51 EDT From: Richard P. Wilkes Subject: FX Lines Well, the mess continues... >From the friendly folks at C&P of Maryland: "In accordance with the Decree, the C&P Telephone Company of MD will be prohibited from providing your foreign exchange service after Dec. 31, 1983." I have a FX from Baltimore to Laurel MD which puts me in the DC calling area. They tell me that as early as Dec. 1, they will be disconnecting my line (that is if they can't get an exclusion from the courts). Interestingly, they suggest that I contact AT&T, MCI, Western Union, SPCC, or USTS after Dec. 31 for this type of service. Hmmm... what a hassle. I think that "good ol' days" will be remembered as the time you could walk into a phone center store, place your order, get your phone and books, and have the whole thing installed within days for $20. Now, you have to place the order by phone, go to the Central Office and wait for 2 hours (!!) behind people who haven't paid their bills in years for a "phone representative" to give you your new phone number and tell you that it will be two weeks before the line is connected. Ug... Almost makes one want to be an anti-antitrust lawyer. -r ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest *********************