Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbatt!cwruecmp!hal!ncoast!wb8foz From: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: What number am I calling from? Message-ID: <1879@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Mon, 29-Dec-86 14:48:54 EST Article-I.D.: ncoast.1879 Posted: Mon Dec 29 14:48:54 1986 Date-Received: Wed, 31-Dec-86 01:36:08 EST References: <750@sdcc12.ucsd.EDU> <1706@sunybcs.UUCP> <722@cooper.UUCP> <2263@well.UUCP> <1502@kitty.UUCP> Reply-To: wb8foz@ncoast.UUCP (David Lesher) Organization: Cleveland Public Access UNIX, Cleveland, OH Lines: 30 # a CO; its primary purpose is to test interoffice trunks, and it has # no usefulness for subscriber loop meqsurements. Many newer CO's have # a speech energy detector on the CLA which drops the connection if # _other_ than SF tones are sent in loop-around mode; this has been # implemented to stop "unauthorized" people from using the CLA for # talking. A bit of historic trivia. Many of the loop-arounds never used to terminate and thus never started the calling end's billing timer. Thus they were used by many persons to provide 'free'LD. Needless to say, Ma was not happy to find that happening. The same was true on dispatch circuits. These were groups of # for the outside craftpeople to call in on for the next assignment. They were dropped into the conference with the dispatcher, and they got their nickle, (oops) dime (oops) quarter (oops) ..... back from the coin slot when they hung up. When Esquire hit the streets in the 60's, everything was changed. But one of my friends hit on an solution. By prearrangement, he called one side of a local loop and waited. His brother called the other, collect from a coin slot in a Big 10 dorm (not his). "Of course, I will accept the charges" I always wondered which BOC got stuck. -- decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!wb8foz ncoast!wb8foz@case.csnet (ncoast!wb8foz%case.csnet@csnet-relay.ARPA) "SERIOUS? Bones, it could upset the entire percentage!" NRO Mossad intercept igniters plutonium Ollie North Tehran