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Metroliner telephone article 4125
Be careful if they get inside... Well, you see, the moron from Comcast that "installed" the cable when I moved to Holmdel from Tinton Falls cut the...
Metroliner telephone article 4126
One of the issues that held back widespread use of ISDN was that typical digital trunks installed during the 80's...
Metroliner telephone article 4127
Stephen Sprunk I can't speak to PUC pricing which is a mismash. But their cost of offering services IS variable and dependent on usage. When they install...
Metroliner telephone article 4128
For trunk (switch-to-switch) capacity, that's true, but for "services", it's totally false. The line cards in a particular CO either offer a hardware...
Metroliner telephone article 4129
Stephen Sprunk That's not the issue. The issue is that the use of services use up CPU cycles. The more CPU cycles used, the more capacity...
Metroliner telephone article 4130
Of course it *works*, but ISDN does nothing... compared to what it *should* have been able to do...
Metroliner telephone article 4131
Wanna bet? (I was engaged in kicking telco management in the teeth about just exactly that, as a sport, at the time...) What does Bell Labs have...
Metroliner telephone article 4132
Developed, and some examples of it actually being used. Whoopee. Typical telephone company management was computer illiterate. The degree to which that affected the industry is astounding too...
Metroliner telephone article 4133
No argument there... Yep... then the machines would be different on different sites with different maintenance scripts... So NON-BELL-STANDARD. Sure... some of...
Metroliner telephone article 4134
Absolutely! And X.25 was for commercial leased lines only. Nobody *ever* considered the idea that residential subscribers could possibly have a use for anything faster than a 212A modem... Besides, networks didn't need...
Metroliner telephone article 4135
ISDN is a post divesbreasture technology, and fear of regulators had *nothing* to do with it. Sure they did...
Metroliner telephone article 4136
You can't use the D channel as a dedicated circuit, but it can be used to carry X.25 packet data. A lot of ATM machines...
Metroliner telephone article 4137
Well, I wouldn't call it less stringent; just different. ISDN requires a relatively clean line in terms of number of gauge changes, loads etc. but only requires good frequency response in...
Metroliner telephone article 4138
I asked for information on the tarriff and Bell refused to give me the info, so I'm pretty sure there's nothing that allows the fee (and, the way things work...
Metroliner telephone article 4139
Phil Kane An awful lot of civilian technology was first developed for the military or military contractors, by military money. As...
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IBM Toll Collection System history
On the history section of the IBM web page, they describe a toll collection data processing...
IBM Toll Collection System history 4143
I did the maintenance on some of their stuff in East Brunswick, NJ back attached to the State Police Barracks. Don't try...
IBM Toll Collection System history 4144
I have driven on both the PA and NJ toll roads. When I was on the PA pike (75-85), they used IBM sized cards with a mag...
IBM Toll Collection System history 4145
No toll taker salary needed. In NJ the exit booths are unmanned in many locations after rush hour and prime holiday time. It remains your responsibility to...
IBM Toll Collection System history 4146
All the ticket systems must have been before my time. I don't remember any around Chicago. I don't know about the East-West tollway as I have never been on it. Maybe you should...
RAMAC 305
past post in another thread: has this history of airline online res system from above: As ATW's first issue was being prepared for its debut in 1964, another baby was...
Source maintenance was SEQUENCE NUMBERS 4148
rcs, cvs, etc ... tend to be "down-dates" ... you have the complete source for the current version ... with control...
Source maintenance was SEQUENCE NUMBERS 4149
ref: SEQUENCE NUMBERS SEQUENCE NUMBERS for some additional drift, old history about requiring source for application distribution on...
1947 Train Phone service
Pac Man It appears that as the Bell System introduced mobile telephone service in the late 1940s railroads decided to put phones on their trains as well...
preAMPS mobile phones, was 1947 Train Phone service Cleverness: some
I used MTS a little bit. Our family vacations every summer on an island off the coast of New Hampshire, and for many years the only phone was an MTS...
Strobe equivalents
Gilbert Saint-Flour for some drift ... in the early 70s, the science center had done a lot of work on performance monitoring and measurement technologies ... some of...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4153
Well, it may be ridiculous, but it's not technology's fault. See, in days of yore when...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4154
Re the 9-11 calls ... From the C-Span coverage of the American Scholars Symposium, on American Perspectives, 7-29-06. Real Video: Prof. James Fetzer Scholars for 9-11 Truth Founder "Those cell phone calls that we've heard...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4155
It's not that the aircraft are faulty or that the airlines are cheap. The way the FAA certifies avionics, the manufacturer is required to certify what levels of interference each device can tolerate...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4156
I pray that my attributions are correct. Robert Coe There is a world of difference between "it tends to work with no...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4157
In fact there *are* "scientific studies" that illustrate exactly how radio interference works. The basic work was done nearly a hundred years ago, and is demonstrated every day...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4158
Well, in the sense of a mathematically rigorous proof (the kind of logical exercise one fights thru in algebra II) you can't. In practical terms you can calculate out the intermodulation and harmonic products that...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4159
That's not how FAA regulations work. All RF devices are banned during flight unless there's a specific regulation or waiver allowing them, and the FAA has not done so. The avionics in airliners have...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4160
Not at all. Design criteria have changed. It used to be that robustness trumped efficiency; this has now been reversed, and cost trumps them both. Modern...
Today's mobile phone technology troubles 4161
I don't know about NYC area tunnels but I just returned from a trip to Seattle and have a tunnel experience to relate: I was talking to my brother via cell phone...
How to build a working digital computer 4162
On 14 Aug 06 16:12:17 -0800 in alt.folklore.computers, "Charlie Gibbs" Waitress: Well there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it. Mrs Bun: I don't want any spam. Mr Bun: Why...
Pooh and Seuss and more was: How to build a working digital computer Distribution: world
romance. Right after Hurricane Katrina hit down here, losts of folks expressed worry over the amount of time it was taking for the bookstores to reopen. When...
Pooh and Seuss and more was: How to build a working digital computer 4164
You don't need wheels. I've been buying thise floatation devices that you stick under furniture. I'm now...
Pooh and Seuss and more was: How to build a working digital computer 4165
On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, Mickey And I'm not going to now that I have read some more of your...
How to build a working digital computer 4166
It's a Tab Book? This is when we shudder. The clbuttic story about that firm is the time a columnist in Popular Electronics, I...
When Does Folklore Begin 4168
On Sun, 06 Aug 2006 21:40:29 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, Peter Was there 1982-3?: heard and could smell the results of a head crash on RM05 drive X...
When Does Folklore Begin 4169
At a PPoE I worked once from a Thursday 7:30 a.m., round the clock, to late Sunday night, only taking out a couple of...
When Does Folklore Begin 4170
In the mid '70s I was put on temporary buttignment to a project that was way late (had...
When Does Folklore Begin 4171
KR Williams Brain Surgeon to Plumber: "How much will it cost to fix the sink???" Plumber to Brain Surgeon: "I get...
When Does Folklore Begin 4172
Wonderful. I take it you were known as the miracle worker in that plant? It's too bad the project didn't have time...
When Does Folklore Begin 4174
No, we have analysed this "middle manager squeeze" quite thoroughly at PPOE; and have concluded the...
Health Care 4178
I can't get the vaccine; I think it'll kill me. No, they are not. Think about it. The food looks clean so the cook doesn't wash it. If there...
Health Care 4179
Exactly the point I was making about the real world. We have laws against it, and in some ways the laws work. Grocery stores are not segregated anymore. And some people will...
Health Care 4180
Here are some figures, from 1991, but there has been no significant change in the 15 years since (a few random...
Health Care 4181
some past posts mentioning transcript of speech by the federal comptroller general (appointed in the mid-90s for a 15 yr term) I had watched...
When Does Folklore Begin 4182
There's some sort of disconnect here. I've heard all sorts of horror stories about our health care system, and no doubt many...
Health Care was: When Does Folklore Begin
There are lots of tax treaties where you can have a full tax settlement in each country, complete with pensions rights. The nordic area is one of those areas, and...
When Does Folklore Begin 4184
That's the story that gets into Michigan. I probably hear more stories because that state juts up in the middle and a lot of people have relatives who live across the border. I think...
When Does Folklore Begin 4185
re: then there is the story about getting operating system deployed in the disk engineering lab (bldg. 14) and disk product test lab (bldg. 15). their attempts at it...
When Does Folklore Begin 4186
On Fri, 18 Aug 06 12:13:52 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, As stated above, the manager doing the contract review does not have any real world experience to let him know...