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| Started by | hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com |
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| First post | 2016-02-13 10:13 -0800 |
| Last post | 2016-02-14 17:21 -0800 |
| Articles | 5 on this page of 45 — 19 participants |
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History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 10:13 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-13 13:29 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2016-02-13 17:09 -0400
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 14:23 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Walter Bushell <proto@panix.com> - 2016-02-14 15:50 -0500
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-14 17:27 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-02-15 09:45 +0000
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 14:20 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2016-02-13 14:33 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2016-02-13 14:02 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Gerard Schildberger <gerard46@rrt.net> - 2016-02-13 14:28 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 18:13 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 14:29 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-02-14 00:53 +0000
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-13 19:03 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 21:30 -0500
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-13 21:40 -0500
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 19:30 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-13 22:33 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-14 00:24 -0500
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 12:57 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2016-02-14 00:05 -0500
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 21:21 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 17:30 +1100
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 02:33 -0500
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 13:00 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-15 07:28 +1100
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-02-14 20:14 +0100
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines JimP <solosam90@gmail.com> - 2016-02-14 16:33 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-14 17:23 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines mausg@mail.com - 2016-02-15 10:45 +0000
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-02-15 12:48 +0000
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 05:11 +1100
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-02-16 18:52 -0700
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-18 11:37 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 20:57 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 21:11 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 21:15 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Stephen Sprunk <stephen@sprunk.org> - 2016-02-19 01:04 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "hgww" <hgww@gmail.com> - 2016-02-20 04:26 +1100
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 18:39 -0800
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-02-13 22:15 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-02-14 07:32 -0500
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-02-14 07:13 -0600
Re: History--customer service training film--party lines hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-14 17:21 -0800
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| From | hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com |
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| Date | 2016-02-13 18:39 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <7fe09eea-c608-4b2e-a225-d49f6b2426bf@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #159295 |
On Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 8:04:10 PM UTC-5, Dave Garland wrote: > I suspect most of us tossed/junked/cannibalized stuff 50 years ago > that would have been worth a nice sum today. But the trick is to know > exactly which stuff that is in advance, have a 50 year horizon to plan > for (I certainly don't), and have ample storage space to stash it in. > I certainly destroyed a large number of cathedral style radios (my > compatriots generically called them "Philco junk sets") for the > handful of parts that might still be useful. At one time, the classic rotary dial telephone sets had some value, but I don't think as much today. They certainly will work, but many people no longer have a classic landline which is required. I had one at work. No one cared.
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| From | Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> |
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| Date | 2016-02-13 22:15 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <n9outm$ng8$2@dont-email.me> |
| In reply to | #159305 |
On 2/13/2016 8:39 PM, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > On Saturday, February 13, 2016 at 8:04:10 PM UTC-5, Dave Garland wrote: > > >> I suspect most of us tossed/junked/cannibalized stuff 50 years ago >> that would have been worth a nice sum today. But the trick is to know >> exactly which stuff that is in advance, have a 50 year horizon to plan >> for (I certainly don't), and have ample storage space to stash it in. >> I certainly destroyed a large number of cathedral style radios (my >> compatriots generically called them "Philco junk sets") for the >> handful of parts that might still be useful. > > At one time, the classic rotary dial telephone sets had some value, > but I don't think as much today. They certainly will work, but > many people no longer have a classic landline which is required. > > I had one at work. No one cared. Maybe you need to wait another 50 years. But maybe it will be another 500 years before anyone cares. That's the problem.
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| From | "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> |
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| Date | 2016-02-14 07:32 -0500 |
| Message-ID | <n9ps9101o5h@news6.newsguy.com> |
| In reply to | #159305 |
<hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: > Dave Garland wrote: > At one time, the classic rotary dial telephone sets had some value, > but I don't think as much today. They certainly will work, but > many people no longer have a classic landline which is required. Data point: the FiOS service at my house - much to my surprise - works quite well with my old pulse-dial lineman's set. Joe
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| From | "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> |
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| Date | 2016-02-14 07:13 -0600 |
| Message-ID | <dibcr8Fcqr8U1@mid.individual.net> |
| In reply to | #159339 |
"Joe Morris" wrote: > <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote: >> Dave Garland wrote: > >> At one time, the classic rotary dial telephone sets had some value, >> but I don't think as much today. They certainly will work, but >> many people no longer have a classic landline which is required. > > Data point: the FiOS service at my house - much to my surprise - works > quite well with my old pulse-dial lineman's set. Speaking of the lineman's set. I always wanted a list of the 'magic" numbers a lineman had and what all he could do. I especially wanted the number that did a call-back to test my ringer. Yesterday I mistakenly punched in the wrong channel number on the remote for my Comcast powered TV and ended up with a backdoor into Comcast. My guess is that if I could recall those first few digits I punched I could explore, by trial and error, a lot of the inner workings of Comcast simply by adding digits at random. It seems to me that someone who punched in 000 to 999 would find the backdoor.
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| From | hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com |
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| Date | 2016-02-14 17:21 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <6684fe95-ad04-49fa-a500-67d5af92bade@googlegroups.com> |
| In reply to | #159339 |
On Sunday, February 14, 2016 at 7:33:57 AM UTC-5, Joe Morris wrote: > Data point: the FiOS service at my house - much to my surprise - works quite > well with my old pulse-dial lineman's set. I have no idea how modern digital telephone sets transmit control signals. But FIOS uses regular telephone sets. One aspect that has not gone away is the "flash", where the user depresses the hookswitch for half a second to take a second call (call waiting) or initiate a third call (3-way calling). The FIOS equipment has to translate the hookswitch flash (an interruption in the line) to a signal. Since it has to handle that, it can handle dial pulses as well. Also, that's why I don't think modern telco switches have any trouble handling rotary pulse signals--they still have to handle hookswitch pulses, and all the software for counting dial pulses exists. However, at some point, I suspect we're gonna see a revolution in what traditional landline service is offered. They're talking about making big changes, and there are many accusations that the telco's aren't maintaining their legacy network. What I don't understand is that today many areas don't have FIOS service. Does the telco plan to just write them off?
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