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From: davef@brspyr1.brs.com (Dave Fiske)
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Subject: Re: Phone Design For Humans
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Date: 2 Oct 89 17:00:32 GMT
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In article , morris@jade.jpl.nasa.
gov (Mike Morris) writes:
> (Andy Meijers) writes:
>
> >6. Make a ringer/bell that can be tracked by ear. In an office full of
> >chirping crickets, all with the speakers buried, it is often hard to
> >tell which one is ringing.
>
> Here's one place where I wish the rest of the world had copied Rolm -
> their phones had 4 different ring sounds, user selectable.  On the old

We used to have this problem at home.  My father had a home office,
with a separate line installed, and they could never tell whether it
was the home or the office phone that was ringing.

I managed to solve this problem for them, totally by accident.  I was
rummaging through a bin of reduced-price clearance items in a
Montgomery Ward store once, and found this little device which stifled
your phone's normal ring, and instead played one of up to 8
user-selectable tunes.  I can't remember all the tunes, but I know it
included La Cucaracha, Yellow Rose of Texas, and Jingle Bells.  Only a
bar or two of the selected song would play.  My mother used to change
the tune every month or so when she got tired of the current one.
Also, the dog used to get pretty excited whenever the phone rang.

The unit ran on a 9-volt battery, which usually lasted a year or so.
The best part was that it only cost me like $7.88 or so, since it was
on clearance.


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