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TELECOM Digest          Wednesday, 2 Nov 1983      Volume 3 : Issue 90

Today's Topics:
                       Re: TELECOM Digest   V3 #89
                      212 modem experience with MCI
                         S.F. Popcorn (V3, #89)
                        Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #88
                       Re: TELECOM Digest   V3 #89
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Date: Mon 31 Oct 83 21:26:43-PST
From: John Reuling <Reuling@SU-SIERRA.ARPA>
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest   V3 #89


on trivia-

No, POPCORN gets you time of day in San Francisco (as well as in the 
rest of 415).  To get Weather in 415, call WENDELL!

-John

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Date: Sun, 30 Oct 83 13:47:00 EDT
From: scrod!johnl%ima@BRL-BMD.ARPA
From: John Levine@BRL-BMD.ARPA, The I.E.C.C.@BRL-BMD.ARPA,
Subject: 212 modem experience with MCI

I use MCI all the time for 1200 baud modem communications.  When I can
get through, it works fine without noticably more glitching than Bell.
(Getting through is a pain because I'm using the Boston MCI "credit
card" access number which is often busy.  The regular access which I
use from home works fine.)

On another note, I am dubious about claims that the Vadic protocol is 
much more noise-resistant than is 212.  On a Vadic modem it is, but
the Vadic modem is an ancient design.  Modern modems may well do as
well with 212 as Vadic does with 3400.

John Levine, ima!johnl and/or Levine@YALE.ARPA

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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 83 06:51:13 PST
From: jmrubin%ucbcoral.CC@Berkeley (Joel Rubin)
Subject: S.F. Popcorn (V3, #89)

        No, it's time that's P-O-P-C-O-R-N in S.F. (actually 767-abcd)
Weather is 936-abcd.  (or WE6 if you prefer)

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Date: 1 Nov 83 08:41:18 PST (Tuesday)
From: Sabiers.es@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest V3 #88

Ron,

If my memory serves me, POPCORN (or 767-xxxx, where x is any number) 
gives the caller the time in Northern California (Pacific Telephone 
territory).

Now a helpless GTE customer, Mark

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Date: Tue, 1 Nov 83 09:47 PST
From: Swenson.PA@PARC-MAXC.ARPA
Subject: Re: TELECOM Digest   V3 #89

"Wasn't it in San Francisco that you dialed POPCORN for the weather."

In the Bay Area, time, not weather, was ROchester 7-8900. Actually,
RO7- NNNN, where n is non-zero and perhaps non-1. POPCORN works.

Bob Swenson

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