21 Sep
2008
21 Sep
'08
12:13 p.m.
Joachim Thiemann wrote:
(Anyone else ever had the ability to whistle 1200 bps
fax
initiators??? Probably the least useful thing I learned at an Ottawa
telecom equipment company... no not THAT one... the OTHER one that
went bust :-)
Used to be that when I received a 'dead phone call' (phone rings, but no
response to a 'hello'), I'd whistle into the phone, varying the frequency of
my
whistle, and sure enough, sometimes I'd get a modem responding. Somebody with
the wrong number in their modem or fax machine..