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From: ron@brl-sem.ARPA (Ron Natalie )
Newsgroups: net.analog
Subject: Re: tel. long distance
Message-ID: <440@brl-sem.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 24-Oct-85 14:41:08 EST
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Posted: Thu Oct 24 14:41:08 1985
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> goes.........     Whenever you dial a long distance number yourself, such as
> 0-986-2345, and then wait a few seconds, you hear an eerie, fading,
> boiiinnngggggg sound somewhat like an electronic gong, which makes it sound

This lets you know that you are connected to one of the more brilliant
long distance connections and lets you know that you can now enter your
credit card number or hit zero for a live operator without having to
have the line timeout.

-Ron