Received: by bu-cs.BU.EDU (5.58/4.7) id AA01936; Mon, 5 Dec 88 03:30:29 EST Message-Id: <8812050830.AA01936@bu-cs.BU.EDU> Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 3:19:00 EST From: The Moderator Reply-To: TELECOM@bu-cs.BU.EDU Subject: TELECOM Digest V8 #194 To: TELECOM@bu-cs.bu.edu TELECOM Digest Mon, 5 Dec 88 3:19:00 EST Volume 8 : Issue 194 Today's Topics: What make/model phone has the best sound quality? Re: Telephone restrictors TV vs telephones Re: In use light (The final word) Getting Hassled By Noisy Line various ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To: att!comp-dcom-telecom From: harvard!cbnews.att.com!dar (David A. Roth) Subject: What make/model phone has the best sound quality? Date: 4 Dec 88 02:44:21 GMT I am aware of the sound quality limited to the telephone because of bandwidth, however I have noticed that certain makes and model phones have better sounds. I have a $12-13 radio shack phone that sends and receives sound better than the higher priced GTE phone I have. So what is the top of the line phone to use for sound quality? Thanks in advance. David A. Roth Columbus, Ohio ...att!cblpn!dar ...arpa!cblpn!dar ...arpa!dar ------------------------------ To: munnari!comp-dcom-telecom@uunet.UU.NET From: munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.au!dave@uunet.UU.NET (Dave Horsfall) Subject: Re: Telephone restrictors Date: 5 Dec 88 04:37:14 GMT In article dgc@math.ucla.edu writes: | | 5. When the battery goes dead (which happens with no warning) it stops | restricting. It would be better if a dead battery disabled outgoing | calls. Ummm... I would be just a little bit annoyed if I couldn't make an emergency out-going call, just because of a stupid flat battery! This sounds like RISKS material. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel-STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave PCs haven't changed computing history - merely repeated it ------------------------------ From: smb@research.att.com Date: Sat, 3 Dec 88 23:14:16 EST To: TELECOM@bu-cs.BU.EDU Subject: TV vs telephones In Seattle, a TV station showed a half-hour paid ad for a Dial-a-Santa service. The catch: it urged children to call in to a pay line, by holding the telephone up to the TV set while the show played Touch-Tones. ------------------------------ To: munnari!comp-dcom-telecom@uunet.UU.NET From: munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.au!dave@uunet.UU.NET (Dave Horsfall) Subject: Re: In use light (The final word) Date: 5 Dec 88 04:34:58 GMT Some time ago, mgrant@cos.com wanted a circuit for an "in-use" indicator for a telephone extension, and I offered to send a copy of a circuit to anyone interested. Well, here are the people I sent the circuit to, in case you want to contact them: Steve Lemke steve@ivucsb.UUCP; lemke@apple.COM; pyramid!comdesign!ivucsb!steve Jerry Glomph Black black%micro@ll-vlsi.arpa Michael Grant mgrant@cos.com I see that Michael took the trouble to type up the circuit in ASCII form - phew! I hope you find the circuit of use - it works for me. -- Dave Horsfall (VK2KFU), Alcatel-STC Australia, dave@stcns3.stc.oz dave%stcns3.stc.oz.AU@uunet.UU.NET, ...munnari!stcns3.stc.oz.AU!dave PCs haven't changed computing history - merely repeated it ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 88 01:07:18 EST From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch) To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu Subject: Getting Hassled By Noisy Line i've been getting audible line noise on a phone in my residence for some time. i've phoned new england telebozo several times about it, and they even sent someone over once, but it hasn't subsided. what can i do to get these people to extract their heads from their butts for a few minutes to fix the line noise?? frustrated, -- # Henry Mensch / / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # {decvax,harvard,mit-eddie}!garp!henry / ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Dec 1988 1:36:17 EST From: *Hobbit* Subject: various To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu I just caught up on the last month and a half, so this addresses a number of things. 976: I wasn't aware that the whole thing was *that* much of a fraud [I refer to the service-employed "keep it hot" people]. I've never been in favor of legislation protecting the citizen from himself, but this really *cries out* to have something done about it. They are making a mint by causing lonely, depressed people to eventually wind up more depressed, I'll warrant. Now, to the original poster of this info: Can you document this [aside from the ads in the paper]? Pat Townson sez: ... I found this wallet size card in the dumpster behind the IBM Plaza downtown. Obviously I did not find the machine to go with it! Hmm, out for a trashing run? Weren't various LOC officials up in arms about the high school kids finding all kinds of proprietary info in dumpsters behind business offices and such? Don't worry -- I routinely find discarded equipment and all kinds of useful flotsam that hotels or yuppie office complexes or even our own building simply tossed out. Don't forget, this is the "age of waste".. CLASS calling: They're starting to play with this in my area, offering the services associated with calling-number identification [call-last-back, trace-last-call, screen-given-number, etc] and of course along with this goes the show-me-calling-number service, which requires the outboard box with the display unit. My question: Where is the protocol for this thing given? There's no way I'm going to *buy* one. _H* ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest *********************