ISP Information:
short for Ultra DMA
ISP Glossary:
UDMA - I'm surprised that some of the old stories haven't surfaced yet (possibleurban legends) about the ingenuity that students developed in order toavoid actually spending the coins for a call.First, there was 'spinning pennies'.But the story I like best was about the contest for the best device tofake out the registering of coins. The winner -- one of the first examplesof thinking outside the box -- was a simple board with 3 bellsmounted to it. Striking the right bell made it sound to the OPR like thecorresponding coin had been deposited and registered.Julian Thomas: jt@jt-mj.net http://jt-mj.netIn the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!Boardmember of POSSI.org - Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc http://www.possi.org-- --Windows: From the people who brought you EDLIN![TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: I think some phone phreaks built anelectronic box do to that, but do not remember its name. You fill inthe blank: a _____ box . I do know that Illinois Bell once had avery misprogrammed number; you dialed it (from a regular home phone)and when there was an answer, a recording would say 'the call youhave dialed requires a ten-cent deposit, please deposit ten-cents.'Only having two nickels, I would rapidly punch the three and sixbuttons on my touch tone like this: 'ding-ding (very short pause)'ding-ding'. Bell's equipment would come back and demand another tencents. If I just sat there presently a live operator would come onthe line and say, 'our equipment did not register your money, depositit again.' Okay operator, here it is ... and I would press thebuttons (3&6) rapidly again. The operator obviously heard whatappeared to be coins going in, and she released the call out tothe network. As long as I kept making the required ding-ding depositsand then answering the inquiring operator with more ding-dings thecall just kept looping around to itself and making the request formoney over and over. After doing it about five or six times, theaudio transmission quality got so bad I had to just abandon mycall. (snicker). I think we played with that off and on for a weekor so, eventually tiring of it. PAT]
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