Subj : Re: Ident-A-Call
To   : Warpslide
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Wed Jul 20 2022 07:33:00

-=> Warpslide wrote to TassieBob <=-

 Wa> We have something similar here called "Ident-A-Call" offered by Bell
 Wa> Canada, you had one physical line and could have a second phone number
 Wa> with a distinctive ring.

 Wa> We sold a box at the computer shop I worked at that detected the
 Wa> distinctive ring and could direct the call to your fax machine (or
 Wa> modem) while the normal ring went through to your phone.  It worked
 Wa> well enough but wasn't 100% if I remember correctly.

I remember those - some people tried running BBSes on their home phone that 
way.

I ran a dial-up BBS in 5 different houses, and always got lucky with the 
wiring. The first was an apartment building that had lath and plaster arches 
ceilings, and the Pac Bell tech ran a wire up a garbage chute to the second 
floor, along the floor past 3 apartments and into mine.

The second one left a new network interface alongside my telephone wiring. I 
waited to meet him onsite, and he said it was good that I did - had I not 
been there, another phone guy would have put the new box on a different wall 
a hundred feet over.

The rest of the installs were pretty straight-forward, network interfaces 
adjacent, 2 pairs running to the rest of the house. it was easy to split off 
the outside pair for the BBS line.




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