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From: westmark!dave@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Locatable Ringers
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Date: 3 Oct 89 03:20:59 GMT
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In article , johnl@esegue.segue.
boston.ma.us (John R. Levine) writes:
 ...
> ROLM phones have for years had the option to set the ringing sound to
> any of eight different warbles ranging from high and squeaky to fairly
> deep.  This feature is specifically intended for the situation where there
> are several phones within hearing distance of each other.  I find that it
> works quite nicely, at least until some joker sneaks into your office and
> changes your ring.

> I am astonished that considering all of the ergonomic work that AT&T at
> least used to do on their phones, they haven't provided this simple feature.

AT&T offers this feature on Merlin(tm) multi-button sets, allowing
the user to program multiple cadence and frequency sequences.
Anything from a simple RING to an elaborate DOOOOWEEEPDEDEDAH can be
programmed from the keyboard.

On mechanical ringers (in 500 or 2500 equipment) two rings can be
made by swapping the left gong in one tel set with the right gong in
the other.

I'm not sure about other AT&T product families.


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[Moderator's Note: The way we fixed this problem in our office (we use all
2500 sets, several years old) was to open the case on each phone, get inside
and adjust the clappers so they produced different results every third or
fourth phone. The phones sit maybe 10-15 feet apart from each other. One
of three or four will just go 'click-click-click', another makes a very
feeble ring, still another has a good hearty ring, etc. How far away the
ringing sound comes from is the first clue; the second are the distinctions
mentioned above for phones within a small area. We have call pickup using
*4 plus extension, however 'universal pickup' using *433 is more widely
used. It does help to know whose phone you are answering, though!   PT]