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From: kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Fair)
Subject: Re: Finisher christminster--still have questions
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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 03:21:59 GMT
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In article <4fli4e$i5g@castor.usc.edu>, jweinste@castor.usc.edu (Jacob
Solomon Weinstein) wrote:

>Offering another explanation of how the phones work,
>kjfair@midway.uchicago.edu (Kenneth Jason Fair) writes:
>
>>The tricky bit was to figure out that the wires do this whether or not
>>they are plugged into the sockets.  The red, green, and blue wires run to
>>the white boxes of Jarboe, the Master, and Bungay, respectively, and
>>from there into their phones.  The sockets are the connections to the phone
>>company.
>This is not correct. Here's a transcript from the game. The power pack 
>has been placed on the white box outside Bungay's room:

[transcript deleted]

Darn, you're right.  I thought I had tested them with the wires unplugged,
but I must have only done it with them plugged in.  That's what I get for
firing off a response without checking first.

I've thought about this every which way and have concluded that this
must be a bug.  It has to go phone-box-wires-sockets-phone company for
the solution to make any sense.  Therefore, the meter has to register
on the wires, not the sockets.

In fact, there is another bug.  The solution will work even if the green
wires are completely unplugged.  This cannot work for a p-b-w-s-pc
solution as above.  Otherwise, when you lift the master's phone, you
should hear nothing.

The only other possible solution (attaching the green socket to the red
and blue sockets) would allow you to listen in on their conversations,
but wouldn't let you dial.

I'm sending this to Gareth as well to let him know.  FYI:
Release 3 / Serial number 951107 / Inform v1502 Library 5/12
Interpreter 6 Version B / Library serial number 951024


Ken

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