Subj : Re: Telnet OS/2 BBS w/Cell Phone?
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Mike Luther
Date : Mon Jan 03 2005 05:31 pm

Sean ..

 SD> I'm getting a numeric pager-it's all I need.  I can 
 SD> pay $120 for a year's worth of service... and my BBS 
 SD> can page me if there's a problem. <G>

That's exactly what I've been doing here for YEARS now but as a digital pager 
not voice.  I actually carried the first digital pager ever released in this 
whole area as part of the provider's research into antenna pattern and 
hole/fill needs for digital paging when it was first introduced.  We really 
didn't know at that time what the issues would be for holes in coverage due to 
pine tree areas vs. oak trees, and many other issues.  Curiously .. pine 
needles are just about the right length for certain frequencies.  The power and 
tower spacing requirements go up in a hurry on this stuff in pine tree country 
compared to grass flatland coverage attempts!

The process was all put together with my custom paging and comm port 
applications, the logging tools that were and are part of ZIPLOG.  Then I 
logged the entire thousands of hits on the actual pager for miles and miles of 
driving and building visits and so on here.  It finally wound up under OS/2 in 
migration from Desqview when OS/2 first came out, all coupled to the 1:117/3000 
and 1:117/3001 Fidonet nodes for the needed messaging and so on.  I carried a 
digital pager for free for about ten years mapping and debugging antenna and 
tower pattern operations in exchange for feeding service irregularty notice to 
the paging company.

At this point, server errors and other critical events flagged by the Rochelle 
MLA-2045 hardware CNID and call progress trace trap custom code written for it 
and the ZIPLOG professional database can page me via the digital interface to 
the pager .. or call the cops .. or forward things; whatever!  Still on the 
table but not released is an actual interface for over the air monitoring of 
pager transmissions, with auto-logging and full database criss-cross data-point 
logging .. to match known facility hard-line POTS event trace and entrapment 
now done as needed.

I can tell you that when the pager stops going off at 2 or 3 in the morning for 
service reporting problems - you've done your job ..

That's how I first learned how valuable OS/2 was for mission critical 
applications.


   ;)


--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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