From: ron@ronnatalie.com (Ron Natalie)
Subject: [TUHS] Harasing whistlers (Was: UUCP mis-history?)
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2017 11:31:17 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <006901d298f2$94c483a0$be4d8ae0$@ronnatalie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170309150644.6735918C11B@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
I don't buy either story. The ORIGINATING modems in the 103 days didn't
make any sound. It was the answering modem that whistled.
Anyhow, one other TIP/MODEM story (this one was true), we that when we were
in college at JHU, the closest TIP was a long distance call from the
Baltimore.
Mike Muuss placed a collect call to the Pentagon TIP, explaining to the
operator that we were calling a computer and if it answered with a tone, it
accepted the charges.
Worked a few times.
Of course,later on Brian Redman and Peter Langston were messing around with
a programmable PBX and set the thing to anser the phone:
Bell Communications Research (long pause) Yes, Operator! I'll accept the
charges.
More often than not, the timing was just about right for the operator to say
"I have a collect call from Ron Natalie" in the pause.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-09 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-03-09 15:06 Noel Chiappa
2017-03-09 16:31 ` Ron Natalie [this message]
2017-03-09 21:29 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-03-09 22:54 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-03-10 0:31 ` Jason Stevens
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