[VoIP] Telephone Reminders now on line

[Mad Mark]

I believe the same thing used to happen a lot in the American phone system. The Evan Doorbell tapes on http://www.phonetrips.com demonstrate this a few times. Also, you could use this circuit to call someone else's line with you connected to it. I remember one instance where Evan Doorbell used the system to dial the Operator on 0, then by dialing three other digits corresponding to a vacant code, he superimposed a reorder on the line. He jokingly asks the operator what's going on and why there is a reorder on the line, before hanging up.

Some systems didn't require you to dial the last four digits. For instance, in his fiends' home exchange in the Long Island area of New York, all you had to dial was 660. This circuit was also used as a party line. However, on his own home exchange, he had to dial 660 and his last four digits.

His friends' 660 could be used as a party line, albeit with significant attenuation on the line. However, his own home exchange could not. Evan Doorbell's home exchange was a Crossbar 1 exchange, and his friends' exchange was a Crossbar 5.

I wonder if your 8+XXXX callback circuit could have been used as a "party line"...

> Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 08:23:43 -0500
> From: voiptandem at shaneyoung.com
> To: voip at ckts.info
> Subject: Re: [VoIP] Telephone Reminders now on line
> 
> When I was a kid, the town next to us had a Stromberg XY board.  To  
> call a party on your party line, you'd dial 8+XXXX where XXXX was the  
> other party's phone, then hang up.  The other party's phone would  
> ring, and I assume yours would too, but I don't recall the details.
> 
> All I really remember was the "bug" in the system, where you could  
> dial 8 and Anyone's number (in that exchange) and their phone would  
> ring.
> 
> So, I could call into this system and enter somone elses number and  
> deliver a message at 03:30 AM ?
> 
> Sounds like fun!!!! :)
> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Lee Spenadel <spenadel at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> >
> >
> > I've adapted a program from Nerd Vittles to standard Asterisk that allows
> > users to schedule telephone reminders.  Here's how it works:
> >
> >
> >
> > You dial 888-8888 and get greeted by Allison.
> >
> > Record the message that you want played back to you.
> >
> > Enter your phone number for the reminder to be sent
> >
> > Enter delivery date (pressing # defaults to today).
> >
> > Enter delivery time
> >
> > Enter whether it's a one time or recurring reminder.
> >
> > Hang up.
> >
> >
> >
> > Recurring messages can be cancelled through the system.
> >
> >
> >
> > Have fun!
> >
> > Lee
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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