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From: tel@hound.att.com (Thomas E Lowe)
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Subject: Re: Locatable Ringers
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Date: 2 Oct 89 12:18:11 GMT
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In article  johnl@esegue.segue.
boston.ma.us 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.

>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.

They have in the System 85 (maybe 75 and 25 also) digital voice terminals.
One can select one of 8 different styles of rings.  2 are single pitch,
2 have two pitches one after the other, 2 have three, and 2 have four.
It works quite well until your neighbor changes his to match yours.


Tom Lowe    tel@hound.ATT.COM or  att!hound!tel     201-949-0428
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