15 May
1998
15 May
'98
1:39 p.m.
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
True... Especially at radio rallies where you see
something odd and pay a
few pounds/dollars to take it home. No idea what it actually is - it's
just interesting...
Just last week, I picked up a "Quorum A160" at a thrift. I couldn't tell
what it was. It had a small numeric keypad, but also had the letter "F" on
the keypad. It had a microphone input. An answering machine? No
telephone jack, but it did have a funky DIN connector. I took it home,
and powered it up. Recorded my voice, played it back. Cool. Punched some
buttons, and left it on the counter for a while.
Opened the front door to the house, and suddenly "WAHHHHHHHHH!".
Turned out it was an alarm system that was activated by presure changes
like a door or window opening. Pretty loud too. I'm glad I didn't find
the model with the anti-personnel mine option attached.
-- Doug