TELECOM Digest Fri, 28 Jan 94 03:15:00 CST Volume 14 : Issue 49 Inside This Issue: Editor: Patrick A. Townson Anik E-1 Satellites Offline (parity%switchboard@cam.org) Public B-ISDN Services in Europe (When?) (Dave Pattison) Stereo->Phoneline Connection (J. Grand) Need Help With the DUOFONE TAD-345 (Jesse Garon) ATM and HighSpeed Networks (Please Help) (Ho Yat-Fan) Hello Direct Noise Filter Worth Getting? (Michael Rosen) VTech Tropez Address/Phone? (Jim Celoni) Vendor Info on RS-422 and RS-366 Modems (Mike Foltz) Telephony History (Dahe Chen) Request for Info - Cellular Telephone Rate History (L. W. Westermeyer) Telecom Texts (Sean Wheeler) Cost Effective Communications (Daniel Edward Dindinger) GTE and the The CA Earthquake (The Network Group) A Highspeed Modem for BB by GI and Intel (Barak Cohen) Pager Software Wanted (Sean Slattery) Pulse Dialing (barberg@vax.oxford.ac.uk) Establishing a 1-900 Number (Adam C. Gross) Programming For Dialogic (Bob Rankin) Remapping Phone Buttons (Amer Neely) Call Home For .15c/Min via 1-800 Number (fgbsows@email.bony.com) Anchor 1200baud Modem Manual Wanted (Phillip "Ty" Young) ESTELLE Help Wanted (Farhat Anwar) Dialing Long Distance From Massachusetts (Carl Moore) TELECOM Digest is an electronic journal devoted mostly but not exclusively to telecommunications topics. It is circulated anywhere there is email, in addition to various telecom forums on a variety of public service systems and networks including Compuserve and GEnie. Subscriptions are available at no charge to qualified organizations and individual readers. Write and tell us how you qualify: * telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu * The Digest is compilation-copyrighted by Patrick Townson Associates of Skokie, Illinois USA. We provide telecom consultation services and long distance resale services including calling cards and 800 numbers. 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Any organizations listed are for identification purposes only and messages should not be considered any official expression by the organization. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: parity%switchboard@CAM.ORG Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 02:52:12 EST Subject: Anik E-1 Satellites offline. Organization: Switchboard BBS - +1 514 334 7883 Taken from the {Montreal Gazette}, 1/1/94 By Alexander Norris and Aaron Derfel One of Canada's main telecomunications satellites accidentelly spun out of control yesterday afternoon, cutting off long distance phone links to northern Canada and sending newspapers, radio and televisio stations scrambling to get out the news. In-house telecommunications services used by large companies - including stock quotations sent to brokers' offices -- also conked out when the Anik E-1 satellite tumbled out of it's axis at abot 12:40PM. And local affiliates of the CTV television network, which rely on the satellite for national programs, were restricted to local shows until about 4 PM, said Barry Turner, vice-president for sales and marketing at Telesat Canada, which owns and operates the satellite. In all, Turner said, about 3,000 corporate customers were affected. Service to most customers was restored at about 8 PM. But one hour later at 9:10PM, Canada's other major communications satellite Anik E-2, also cartwheeled out of control, knocking CBC newsworld and other national speciality cable TV channels off the air and affecting CBC and CTV operations. Partial service, with signals carried by fiber-optic cable, was being restored in some centres across Canada. "We're working on it, but it doesn't look good," Jim Spendlove, a Telesat official, said early today, suggesting that it might be much more difficlt to fix it that it was to get Anik E-1 working again. Chris Frank, Telesat's director of public affairs, conceded the company might have to issue rebated to the tune of "hundreds of thousands of dollards" because of the Anik E-1 service disruption. "We're going to have to rely on our 20-year history of top-line service to convince our customers to stay with us," Turner saidin an interview last night."It is a blow to us in terms of our credibility, but we're working hard to mitigate it". LAUNCHED IN 1991 Telesat officials said the Anik E-1 problem originated with an electronic failiure inside the $300-million satellite, which was launched in 1991 and hovers 36,000 kilometers above the equator. The malfunction affected a device that keeps the satellite in s stationary position above the earth. That sent the satellite spinning, then wobbling, causing it to move out of alignment with tousands of transmitting facilities and receiving dishes on the ground in Canada. The news business was hit particularly hard. "You just can't find a decent satellite these days," grumbled Eric Siblin, a copy editor at the Montreal office of the Canadian Press national news-gathering co-operative, which stopped providing dispatches to about 100 newspapers because of the malfunction. "All we need is a couple of carrier pigeons, some long string and two tin cans, and we'll have a state-of-the-art 19th-century wire service." Aside from CTV and the Canadian Press, CP affiliate Broadcast News was also affected, as were CBC Newsworld's internal feeds, the Reuters wire service Standart Broadcast News and the Toronto Globe and Mail. The outage interfered with production of today's Gazette, but all regular features are included in today's editions except some commodities listings. At the Globe - which uses Anik E-1 to beam its paper to printing presses accross the country -- managers had made plans to fly printing plates to Halifax, Boucherville, Brandon, Man., Calgary and Vancouver -- but abandoned them when satellite service resumed. The interruption also affected abot 450 subscribers to the broadcast news service, said Wayne Waldroff, general manager of BN. Some feeds from CTV and french-language TV-5 were switched to the Anik E-2 satellite, Telesat spokesman Christine Bailey said, before it went kaput. MAKING LOCAL CALLS Normand Toupin, a Bell Canada spokesman, said up to 30,000 households throughout northern Quebec and Ontario and the entire Yukon and Northwest Territories were restricted to making local calls during the Anik E-1 outage. Telesat Canada does $200 million in sales every year and is owned by Alouette Telecommunications Inc., a consortium controlled by Spar Aerospace Inc., which made the satellite, and the Stentor group of Canadian phone companies. ------ Why is it that only the Canadian satellites were affected? The news tonigh said that an electromagnatic storm was responsible for the problems. Wouldn't such a storm affect other satellites also? PS: Typos are mine. (As always.) PC ------------------------------ From: pattison%xstacy.dnet.dec.com@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (Dave) Subject: Public B-ISDN Services in Europe (When?) Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:22:31 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation Reply-To: pattison%xstacy.dnet.dec.com@nntpd.lkg.dec.com (Dave) When will there be B-ISDN (ATM) services available to the general public in Europe? Which countries? Anything in 1994? Costs? Any information gratefully received. Dave Pattison (pattison@xstacy.enet.dec.com) ------------------------------ From: smooth@acs2.nntp-read.bu.edu (J. Grand) Subject: Stereo->Phoneline Connection Date: 27 Jan 94 13:06:16 Organization: Boston University Information Technology Boston, MA USA Hi I was wondering if anyone had a good circuit to hook up my stereo to the phone line with minimal noise and hopefully high volume? if so, please send replies to: smooth@acs.bu.edu Thanks! ------------------------------ From: j_garon@illuminati.io.com (Jesse Garon) Subject: Need Help With the DUOFONE TAD-345 Date: 27 Jan 1994 22:01:17 -0600 Organization: Illuminati Online Due to the earthquake in LA, and the blackout that came with it, the codes on my answering machine, the TAD-345, marketed by Radio Shack as a DUOFONE model, were erased. Since I lost the manual for this machine when I moved several months ago, I don't know how to reset these codes. If somebody could email me instructions for setting the codes that activate remote retrieval of messages and voice mail (ie, which keys on the machine are equivalent to which numbers and how to set them) I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Jesse Garon ------------------------------ From: cshyf@cs.ust.hk (HO Yat-Fan) Subject: ATM and HighSpeed Networks Organization: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 10:29:07 +0800 Hello Dear Netters, I'd like to ask whether there's any newsgroup where there are discussions of current issues in Researches in ATM and highspeed networks. Also, is there any ftp sites around where papers in this field can be obtained? Thanks indeed very very much. Regards, Fan ------------------------------ From: mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu (Michael Rosen) Subject: Hello Direct Noise Filter Worth Getting? Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept. Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 05:27:41 GMT I'm looking at the EMI noise filter in the Hello Direct catalog. I currently only have a surge suppressor from Rent-A-Shack on my phone line. How do I know if I truly need a noise filter? Could it make improvements even though I currently don't notice many problems? The only problem I have currently is connecting at 14.4K to a Boca modem; I only connect at 9600. That could be his modem though I can't be sure. It doesn't happen anywhere else. As for voice communications, what improvements would I expect? Thanks, Michael Rosen mrosen@nyx.cs.du.edu George Washington University Alumni (Fall '92) Tau Epsilon Phi, Tau Theta 381 ------------------------------ From: celoni@columbia.edu (Jim Celoni) Subject: VTech Tropez Address/Phone? Reply-To: celoni@columbia.edu Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 16:13:37 GMT What are the address and phone number of VTech, manufacturer of Tropez 900MHz cordless phones? And where are the phones available in the Los Angeles area or by mail order? Thanks, J. R. Celoni celoni@columbia.edu ------------------------------ From: mike_foltz@sgate.com Subject: Vendor Info on RS-422 and RS-366 Modems Date: 27 Jan 1994 17:10:23 GMT Organization: Collins International Services Company To all: I am looking for vendor information on modems that have both RS-422 and RS-366 interfaces and run over copper or fiber optic cable. I have video teleconferencing and inverse mux equipment that has those interfaces. Our campus distribution system has both copper and fiber optics. The use of the modems will allow remoting the video teleconferencing equipment closer to the users. Thanks in advance, Mike Foltz foltzmik@sgate.com 703-803-8361 ------------------------------ From: dahe_chen@Warren.MENTORG.COM (Dahe Chen) Subject: Telephony History Date: 27 Jan 1994 17:34:15 GMT Organization: Mentor Graphics, Silicon Design Division Reply-To: dahe_chen@mentorg.com (Dahe Chen) I am reading a book written in 1930's in which telephone numbers are cited as digits prefixed with a location name in an English word. I also heard that in the movie "Forever Young" recently. I was wondering how the switchboards worked then. Were the switchboards actually divided geographically? Can anyone give a history lesson? Dahe Chen Mentor Graphics Corporation 15 Independence Boulevard Warren, New Jersey 07059 (908)604-0888, (908)580-1906 (fax) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Yes, switchboards were 'divided up geographically'. Until about 1960, the three digit prefixes we have now were either the first three letters of a word or sometimes the first two letters of a word and a single digit. Smaller towns had a single switchboard and larger places like Chicago had many switch- boards loated in different areas of the town just as now there are different switching centers in a large town. When telephone calls were processed entirely by operators, the various switchboards were all connected together in the same way the switching machines of today are all interconnected. If you asked the operator for a number which was not on the same switchboard as yourself, the operator plugged into a certain jack on the board which connected the call to the desired switchboard, then she would tell the operator at the distant board what number was desired. Each of the switchboards had names, just as each of the switching centers today have numbers assigned to them. If the number you passed to the operator verbally was not the name of the switchboard you were using, the instant she heard the name of the switchboard desired she was already plugging into the associated jack and by the time you recited the numbers following the name, she generally had the operator from the distant switchboard on the line. When connections were handled entirely by operators, the length of time from you going off hook to getting your party on the line was about the same as today. The light above your jack on the switchboard illuminated when your phone went off hook. By the time you got the receiver to your ear, it is likely the operator was already there asking 'number please?' and because she knew almost by heart where every jack to all other switchboards was located on *her* switchboard as soon as she heard the exchange name she was up there. It would be a brief, interactive conversation of just seconds in length: (you go off hook, operator responded usually in five seconds or less) "Number please?" (operator speaking to you) "Wabash 3456" (you speaking to operator) "Thank you" (operator speaking to you) If you were also on the Wabash switchboard your operator would then continue: Line is ringing ... or Line is busy. There was no audible busy tone and only certain swithboards had audible ringing tones. If the first response, the operator would pull the ringing key forward again about every fifteen seconds or so for two or three seconds and after maybe a minute of this (if there was no answer) would say, "Line doesn't respond" or "Line doesn't answer." If she told you "Line is busy" of course you just hung up the phone and tried again later. Courteous subscribers would say thank you first, then hang up; discourteous subscribers would just slam the phone down or perhaps curse at the operator in the process. If you were not on the Wabash switchboard then after saying "thank you" your operator would already be plugged into Wabash waiting for the 'click sound' which meant the distant operator (who did not speak up at that point) was on the line, and your operator would say merely, "3456" (operator speaking to the operator at Wabash switchboard. The audible sounds heard were a 'chunk' which meant the distant operator had started pulling the ringing key and your operator would respond with "Line is ringing". Or, a 'tick-tick' meant the distant operator had touched the tip of her cord to the sleeve of the jack and found the line busy. Your operator on hearing that would report "Line is busy". If she did not pick up on it, the distant operator would occassionally speak up and say merely "BY" (pronounced 'bee-why') which meant busy. After somewhere around a minute, if your party had not answered and your operator had not told you there was no response, then the distant operator would speak up and say merely "DA" which was pronounced 'dee-a') which meant doesn't answer. Either way your operator would then report to you the status.) On a few occassions when the calling traffic was very heavy, your operator might attempt to connect to the distant switchboard only to find none of her jacks going to that switchboard to be available and she would advise you that no circuits were available going there at this time. Or if she got through to the distant end but *they* were out of switchboard cords temporarily, then the distant operator would respond to your operator by saying 'NC' (enn-see) which meant no circuits right now. If the distant phone was out of order, the operator's reply to each other was 'OD" (oh-dee). "NW" was not a good number (no such number in service) and 'denied' was the response when the called subscriber had been cut off for non-payment, or what we sometimes call a credit disconnect. If you asked for 'Information' you were connected to a room full of clerks who wore headsets with *very long* cords on them who walked around in a rather large room with stacks of phone books everywhere plus the most recent (handwritten) list of updates, number changes, etc. Asking for the 'Business Office' got you the reps who would discuss your bill, etc by pulling manual, handwritten file folders out of row after row of racks which closely resembled library stacks. You also would ask the operator for Repair Service. If you wanted to make a long distance call you asked for 'Long Distance' and you were connected to other operators who handled that exclusively from a different switchboard. Your operator would stay on the line until long distance answered and pass your number to the LD operator to avoid the possibility of you 'accidentally' giving the wrong number for billing purposes when it was requested. A long distance call consisted of a series of switchboards hooked together from one place in the country to another. A Chicagoan calling Los Angeles -- let us assume 'Hollywood 2000' which was the number of the Paramount switchboard -- would tell LD he wanted that number in Los Angeles. She would plug into a jack, wait a few seconds and presently an operator would answer 'St. Louis'. "...St. Louis, this is Chicago, give me Kansas City ...", and after a few seconds, an operator would answer 'Kansas City' and your operator would say, "...Kansas City, this is Chicago, give me Denver ..." when Denver answered, the operator asked for Salt Lake; and from there she would ask for Los Angeles. Finally when Los Angeles answered your operator would ask for Hollywood 2000, and presently the switchboard at Paramount would answer. Now your call was connected, and after a minute or so, the line would go dead!!! You'd flash your hook furiously and your local operator would answer. "Operator! you cut me off!" Your operator would jiggle the ringing key and get long distance, "Operator! this is the xxx operator. You cut my party off!" ...."No, I did not cut your party off operator, they are still up here ..." and she would jiggle the ringing key until St. Louis answered: "St. Louis! you cut my party off!" "No I did not, they are still up here." Kansas City, Denver, Salt Lake and finally Los Angeles, always the same answer, "I did not cut your party off, they are still up here." Finally they'd all get reconnected back to the Paramount switchboard and blame *her*, and of course she had no one else to pass the blame to. It could have been any one of the five or six operators on the line who (a) got the false supervision signal or (b) just accidentally yanked the wrong cord from your local operator on one end to Paramount on the other, but none of them would admit it. Long distance charge tickets were all written up by hand and time-stamped in a small clock on the switchboards; when a ticket was stamped out, it went on a spindle and about every fifteen minutes a clerk from the billing department came through with a cart on wheels and collected all the tickets which were filed in the file folders so the service reps could talk to customers about them and the legions of bookkeepers could post them in ledgers and mail out bills. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 12:28:36 CST From: L. W. Westermeyer Subject: Request for Info - Cellular Telephone Rate History I was wondering if you know of any studies on end user cost trends in the cel lular telephone industry. I am in the process of evaluating a set of bids for cellular telephone service and would appreciate if you could either answer the following questions or direct me to a source that could answer them. 1.What has been the trend for monthly access fees for cellular telephone service over the past three or more years? 2.What has been the trend for per minute air time fees for cellular telephones over the past three or more years? 3.Do you anticipate that these trends will continue? Voice: (314) 553-6010 SLWWEST@UMSLVMA.BITNET (Bitnet) Fax: (314) 553-6007 SLWWEST@UMSLVMA.UMSL.EDU (Internet) Mailing Address: University of Missouri - St. Louis 8001 Natural Bridge Road St. Louis, MO 63121 USA ------------------------------ From: swheeler@netcom.com (Sean Wheeler) Subject: Telecom Texts Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest) Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 19:35:00 GMT Can anyone out there recommend a good Management Level (ie not too technical) book on telco network design and capacity planning? I need to get my feet wet, but don't need to immerse myself in the technicalities. Sean D. Wheeler Fun: swheeler@netcom.com Work: sean.wheeler@octel.com ------------------------------ From: dedindin@cudnvr.ouray.denver.colorado.edu (Daniel Edward Dindinger) Subject: Cost Effective Communications Date: 27 Jan 1994 18:35:17 GMT Organization: University of Colorado at Denver For companies who use over $200 a month in long distance telophone service: Phoenix Network is a re-biller that buys service from ATT, MCI and Sprint and resells to small and medium sized companies. Phoenix's rates start as low as $0.0985/minute depending on your volume, equipment (e.g. T1's), location and calling patterns. I would like the opportunity to offer your company a free customized qoute on your long distance telecommunication needs. Call me at (303) 797-7034 and start saving your company $$$ next month! Daniel Edward Dindinger dedindin@cudnvr.ouray.denver.colorado.edu 7195 S Sherman st. Littleton, CO 80122 (303) 797-7034 [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Let's be careful about commercializing the net Mr. Dindinger! Some of the Usenetters get real bent out of shape with messages like yours. In the future, please word your messages so they appear to be 'infomercials' or 'reviews' rather than out and out commercials. For examples of how to do it, check out the messages posted by that guy who talks about Orange Cards from time to time. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:55 EST From: The Network Group <0004526627@mcimail.com> Subject: GTE and the CA Earthquake With all the GTE bashing that I see from time to time I'd like to give credit where credit is due. I have a CONTEL pager that uses an access numb er that is normally long distance from our C.O., but uses screened billing so charges to access the end to end pager number never appear on our Contel bill. Due to the earthquake in San Fernando Valley, I had to relocate temporarily to look after my 88 year old mother and see to repairs of our family home in Reseda -- two miles from the epicenter of the quake. I called GTE and in turn they called Contel and gave me a free access number on my pager for the next 30 days to help out. I thought that was very nice of them considering all of the horror stories that I'd seen and hear on the net. Contel and GTE are both licensed on VHF 158.1 Mhz. but in different geographical locations so after we got to the right people -- consumer service I might add -- the whole thing was done within an hour! [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: GTE isn't a bad bunch of people. I've talked to a few who read the Digest regularly and they seem pretty sharp to me. They've been handling the latest disaster pretty well, IMO. (Hey look, no /H/ in there ... I don't give humble opinions.) PAT] ------------------------------ From: bardak@ccsg.tau.ac.il (Barak Cohen) Subject: A Highspeed Modem For BB by GI and Intel Organization: Tel-Aviv University Computation Center Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 03:00:42 GMT Hello folks, I heard about the project of GI and Intel of a highspeed modem for broadband medium (like CATV). Can any of you give more details about this project? Thanks, Barak Cohen Tel Aviv University Goman Communication LTD Engineering Faculty 2nd Hazmaut St. Raanana Physical Electronics Dep. ISRAEL 43460 Tel/Fax: 972-9-903382 Tel: 972-9-424349 Email: bardak@ccsg.tau.ac.il ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 00:19 EST From: Sean Slattery Subject: Pager Software Wanted I am considering getting a pager to alert me of problems on my network, i.e. server down, WAN down etc. The software offered by the major paging company's seems geared to use by a human and doesn't seem to have a machine interface. Does anyone know of a software package designed to monitor Netware or Unix (perferably both) networks and send alpha messages to a pager if certain events occur (or don't occur)? Alternatively a package with an interface to which I could add my own scripts/batch files? Sean Slattery (SLATTERY+aCYBERSPACE%Airflow@MCIMail.com) Airflow Research & Mfg. ------------------------------ From: barberg@vax.oxford.ac.uk Subject: Pulse Dialing Date: 27 Jan 1994 22:14:05 GMT Organization: Oxford University VAX 6620 Does anyone know of a way that one can detect pulse dialing on a telephone line just from the signal at the receiving end of a call? I am trying to write a voice-mail type system and have no problems detecting DTMF tones using 16 parallel Gortzel detectors, but I would like to know if there is an easy way to detect pulse dial -- since here in the UK a lot of people still have pulse dial phones. Simon ------------------------------ From: Adam C. Gross Subject: Establishing a 1-900 Number Date: Fri, 28 Jan 1994 00:23:53 -0500 Organization: Senior, Student Defined Major, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Sorry if this is a FAQ, but does anyone have info on how I can establish a 1-900 number (I'm in Pittsburgh/Bell Atlantic)? Please email replies. Much thanks, Adam [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: All the long distance companies have 900 service available. Call your carrier of choice and ask. Even most of the local telcos have local area 900 service (although sometimes they sell it as 976 or 540). PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 10:32:13 EST From: Bob Rankin Subject: Programming For Dialogic I recently called Dialogic and requested info on PC/telephony cards. I got a very nice package describing their hardware offerings and also a bunch of literature from vendors who offer programming tools, application generators, etc. One such vendor, U.S. Telecom, is making an offer that looks very attractive. They have a "10th anniversary special" package that includes a D41/D card (4-port) and the VAL toolkit for $1495. They said it's $500 off the regular price until Feb. 15th. The person I spoke with was very interested in learning more about TELECOM Digest, especially how to access from Compuserve, Delphi, etc. I didn't have that info handy, so if anyone wants to enlighten these folks, You can call US Telecom at 800-835-7788, ext 1113. Is it really That Hard to program for the Dialogic cards? Is there a library of useful subroutines or source code examples floating about? (All standard disclaimers apply) Bob Rankin (r3@vnet.ibm.com) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Well, I had a Dialogic card and no source code at one point; Dialogic very kindly sent me a large manual with lots of routines written in 'c' along with a couple sample programs which were most useful. They are nice people. PAT] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 17:41:03 GMT From: aneely@toth.uwo.ca (Amer Neely) Subject: Remapping Phone Buttons Hello all ... I have a third-party phone which I purchased quite some time ago. Recently a friend tried to call her place to check for messages on her Bell Call Answer. She couldn't get past the point where she was asked to `Press the pound key ...'. On my phone it's mapped to a Redial function. Is it possible to re-wire the phone or something so this can be done? I don't really need the redial and would just as soon have a fully compatible phone if possible (without renting one from Bell). Also, the star button is mapped to Mute. Is this something I can change too? Thanks in advance and bcnu ... Amer Neely, P.O. Box 1538 Stn. B, London ON, CANADA, N6A 5M3 42,15'N x 81,14'W +251m Internet: aneely@toth.uwo.ca E-mail for PGP 2.3 signature block. ------------------------------ From: fgbsows@email.bony.com Subject: Call Home For .15c/Min via 1-800 Number Date: Thu, 27 Jan 1994 13:56:35 GMT Call home for 0.15c/min using a no fee 1-800 number. For more information call 1-800-323-0954 or fax name and address to 1-800-848-9579. You may answer to USENET but send no e-mail please:) [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Hey, the same to you! The acceptable use policy for this network plainly states the only acceptable form of advertising is that which is done up to appear that it is research into various tariffs, etc. Don't be so bald-faced about it next time! PAT] ------------------------------ From: tyoung@jove.acs.unt.edu (Phillip "Ty" Young) Subject: Anchor 1200baud Modem Manual Wanted Date: 27 Jan 1994 14:36:23 GMT Organization: University of North Texas I've tried posting this to some of the other comm. groups around here and had very little in the way of helpful responses. I'm looking for the manual for an Anchor Automation 1200E modem (ca. 1987 vintage). If you have one of these, or at least know the DIP switch settings, could you respond? Thanks very much. Ty Young ------------------------------ From: cnbr73@vaxa.strath.ac.uk Subject: ESTELLE Help Wanted Date: 27 Jan 1994 15:09:54 GMT Organization: Strathclyde University VAX Cluster Hi, I am looking for a PD or ShareWare ESTELLE compiler/intrepreter for dos or windows environment. I searched SIMTEL20 with no luck. I'd highly appreciate any info or pointer regarding it. Thanks in advance. Anwar e-mail : cnbr73@uk.ac.strath Farhat Anwar, Phone Communications Division, Office : (041) 552 4400 Ex-2082 Dept. of Electronic & Electrical Engg., Home : (041) 558 6258 University of Strathclyde, 204 George Street, Glasgow G1 1XW, U.K. Fax : (041) 552 2487 ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jan 94 15:58:32 EST From: Carl Moore Subject: Dialing Long Distance From Massachusetts QUESTION: What happens now for local calls (originating in Massachusetts) to another area code? The question arises because of what I had previously collected for the history file: I have a note that 413,508,617 (the Massachusetts area codes) were to change in 1993-94 to 7D for long distance within area code (along with all other New England areas except Connecticut), BUT that, in Oct. 1993, 1 + NPA + 7D was ordered instead. I also have, for 413, that "1 + NPA + 7D for local calls to another area code permissive 1 Mar to 8 Apr 1993". ------------------------------ End of TELECOM Digest V14 #49 *****************************