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From: tjr@ihnet.att.com (Thomas J Roberts)
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Subject: Re: Locatable Ringers
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Date: 30 Sep 89 19:21:36 GMT
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 From article , by johnl@esegue.
segue.boston.ma.us (John R. Levine):
> In article  Kenneth_R_Jongsma@cup.
> portal.com writes:
>>In a recent issue of the digest, someone mentioned that they wanted a
>>phone that you could locate by the sound of its 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.

The phone on my desk (AT&T 7507 ISDN phone) has 8 different ring sequences,
selectable by the user. While the pitch of the ringer is not changable, it
has 3 tones, and 8 sequences of hi-med-low to choose from. It also has
a liquid-crystal display that displays the incoming call number (when
possible), and about a million buttons programmable for features
(conference, transfer, call-forward, auto call-back, priority call,
leave word calling, program speed call, etc.) and/or speed calling numbers.

Tom Roberts
AT&T Bell Laboratories
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