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Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 05:56:49 GMT
From: trebor@foretune.co.jp (Robert J Woodhead)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: AT&T's COLOR Videophone With Motion
Organization: Foretune Co., Ltd.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 837, Message 2 of 11

0005066432@mcimail.com (Tansin A. Darcos & Company) writes:

> To put it into perspective, we think that SEVEN frames per second is
> terrible and we are trying to eventually get to THIRTY frames per
> second.  Thirty frames per second is the same as the number of
> animation stills they use in cartooning.  Supposedly, one cannot tell
> the difference between live video and thirty frames per second video.

Full motion animation, such as seen in Disney films, is 24 frames per
second, the normal rate for films (and, by the way, each frame is
usually projected multiple times to reduce apparent flicker).  TV is
60 fields per second, interlaced, for a 30 frame/second effective
rate.

Most non-theatrical animation is twelve or eight (or less) different
frames per second, recorded on film at 24 frames per second (so two,
three or four sucessive frames are identical, as opposed to full
motion animation where every frame is different).  A variety of
techniques are used to make this look less-jerky; for example, camera
moves (pans) are done at 24fps, even though the animated characters
are only moving (for example) eight times a second.

To give you some perspective, the average 1/2 hour animated show for
kids uses between 6,000 and 10,000 sheets of cel material, and as each
character is usually on a sheet by him/her/itself, this means that at
any time, two or three sheets are needed for a single frame.  In full
motion animation, 5,000 (10,000 / 2) frames would last less than four
minutes; this gives you some idea of the "compression" that those who
draw Smurfs for a living can achieve.


Robert J. Woodhead, Biar Games / AnimEigo, Incs.    trebor@foretune.co.jp
AnimEigo US Office Email (for general questions): 72447.37@compuserve.com
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 07:36:10 GMT
From: morris@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Mike Morris)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Sprint/United Telephone Wants Your Old Equipment
Organization: College Park Software, Altadena, CA
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 837, Message 11 of 11

telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes:

> United Telephone - Northwest  (A Sprint Company)
> CASH FOR USED TELEPHONE or COMPUTER EQUIPMENT!

> United Telephone (a Sprint Company) is interested in purchasing your
> USED TELEPHONE or COMPUTER equipment.

> So anyone with old equipment they don't want might consider this as
> one way of getting rid of it -- and help Sprint upgrade their service
> at the same time, yuk, yuk!      

Hey - a place where I can unload all my 1A, 1A1 and 1A2 equipment!


Mike Morris   WA6ILQ    818-447-7052  evenings  
PO Box 1130       Arcadia, CA. 91077 
All opinions must be my own since nobody pays
me enough to be their mouthpiece...
From: rboudrie@chpc.org (Rob Boudrie)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Michigan Bell Charges for Phone Number
Date: 9 Nov 92 21:09:15 GMT
Organization: Center For High Perf. Computing of WPI; Marlboro Ma
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 834, Message 5 of 11

In article <telecom12.825.6@eecs.nwu.edu> jongsma@esseye.si.com (Ken
Jongsma) writes:

> In the monthly Michigan Bell billing insert, there is a large article
> that gushes about how Michigan Bell will allow you to pick a
> "personalized" telephone number. The cost is only $38!! They conclude
> by stating that your customer service rep will be more than willing to
> help you.

New England Telephone is reputed to be planning this (according to one
of my operatives).  They are preparing for this by withholding "good"
numbers that are likely to be requested ( -xx00, -x000, etc.).  It is
expected that this will be a monthly charge once a "requested" number
has been assigned.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:38:33 GMT
From: johng@comm.mot.com (John Gilbert)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Telephone Phreaks
Organization: Motorola
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 831, Message 9 of 13

> In article <telecom12.817.9@eecs.nwu.edu> mertwig!xyzzy@uunet.UU.NET
> (Daniel Drucker) writes:

>> Also, would someone tell me what the STD-III Information Center is?
>> (Dial 950-1288 anywhere in the USA, 2400,8N1.)

When I dial this I get:

            WELCOME TO AT&T INFORMATION ACCESS SERVICE

Please Sign-on:

What is this service used for?


John Gilbert    johng@ecs.comm.mot.com  


[Moderator's Note: It is a network server, a lot like Telenet's data
network. You 'sign on' to various other systems such as ATT Mail.
Actually, I dial into it at 9600 baud, although 2400 is okay. We have
discussed this before, and interested parties might want to check out
the file in the Telecom Archives discussing it. Check the directory in
the archives for '950.1288'.     PAT]
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 04:38:25 GMT
From: dave@westmark.com (Dave Levenson)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Armored Phone
Organization: Westmark, Inc.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 833, Message 6 of 9

In article <telecom12.818.5@eecs.nwu.edu>, amb@cs.columbia.edu (andrew
m. boardman) writes:

> I need a wall-mountable telephone for indoors use that's fairly theft-
> and vandalism-proof.  Who sells this kind of stuff?

GaiTronics offers ruggedized telephone enclosures. 

Have a look at coin telephones.  You can probably disable the coin
part of it, and still have a vandal-resistant housing.


Dave Levenson		Internet: dave@westmark.com
Westmark, Inc.		UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave
Warren, NJ, USA		Voice: 908 647 0900  Fax: 908 647 6857
From: rpw3@rigden.wpd.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Risks Of Cellular Speech
Date: 9 Nov 92 12:51:41 GMT
Reply-To: rpw3@sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Organization: Silicon Graphics Inc., Mountain View, CA
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 834, Message 7 of 11

monty@proponent.com (Monty Solomon) writes:

> Excerpt from RISKS DIGEST 13.89
> From: Dave King <71270.450@compuserve.com>
> Bell Canada ... found that 80 percent of all cellular telephone
> traffic is monitored by third parties.  Even more eye-opening is the
> fact that 60 percent of monitored calls are taped...

See the attached retraction found in RISKS DIGEST 14.01.

 --Rob

         ======= attachment =======================
 Date: 03 Nov 92 16:47:58 EST
 From: Dave King <71270.450@compuserve.com>
 Subject: Risks Of Cellular Speech

I must apologize to the list.  I have been informed that we cannot
confirm the percentage figures that were mentioned in the note that I
quoted in the item that I posted yesterday concerning a study of the
monitoring of cellular traffic in Toronto, Canada.


David L. King, IBM Southeast Region I&TSS, Mail Drop D072, 10401 Fernwood Road
Bethesda, Maryland 20817, (301) 571-4349
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 92 16:33:11 CST
From: Rob Knauerhase <knauer@cs.uiuc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Odd Survey
Organization: TELECOM Digest
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 828, Message 7 of 7

This afternoon, I got a call from an overly-friendly man named John
something, who worked for Chilton Research.  He asked if I'd take part
in a survey of long-distance for the household.  I asked what it was
for, and he said "marketing research."

He mispronounced my name, and if this phone was associated with me as
listed in the phone book.  I said yes.  He then asked if I still had
MCI as my primary LD carrier, to which I replied yes.

At this point, I asked if his company was engaged by MCI, and he said
no.

He then interrupted (trying to get back on the script, I imagine) and
said that they were checking to make sure people's long-distance
carriers has not been changed without their knowledge; there is a
number to call to make sure who is your LD company.  I said "You mean
700-555-4141" (like a good telecom geek) and he said (in a surprised
tone) "Yes.  Can you call that toll-free number, double-check that it
says MCI, then I will call you back and make sure?"

I said that I was sure I had MCI as of my last bill, and that I highly
doubted I'd been slammed since then (a week ago).  He said "You'd be
surprised -- we've found many people who were changed without perm-
ission in the past couple days."

So I agreed to call, and did, and got the MCI message.

He called back, and I told him that yes, it was still MCI.  He asked
how long I had had MCI, and I said "around two years"; he then
launched into a short "thank you" script and that was the end of the
call.

Afterwards, though, I began to wonder:

 - if Chilton isn't hired by MCI, why do they care that I haven't been
slammed?  Or did MCI commission the survey and instruct the people not
to portray themselves as MCI employees?

 - was he perhaps going to try to sell me some other company if things
had gone differently?

 - my name and number are listed in the phone book, but how did he
know that I had MCI?  I assume that IBT wouldn't release that info
unless perhaps they commissioned the survey, and he said that MCI
wasn't the originator.

Has anyone heard of this company, or heard of this type of survey?  I
don't suspect anything fishy; however, the purposes of such a survey
aren't clear to me and the man who called didn't seem to know anything
beyond the prepared spiel he had.


Rob Knauerhase           University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
knauer@cs.uiuc.edu       Dept. of Computer Science, Gigabit Study Group
From: 1012breuckma@vmsf.csd.mu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Need Widget to Connect Two Faxes or Modems Together
Date: 8 Nov 92 02:05:28 GMT
Reply-To: 1012breuckma@vmsf.csd.mu.edu
Organization: Marquette University - Computer Services
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 832, Message 2 of 12

In article <telecom12.825.11@eecs.nwu.edu>, root@yclept.chi.il.us
(Root) writes:

> A friend wants to connect two fax machines together via their telco
> connections so that the machines could be used as copiers. 

The fax machines that I've used can all copy documents, using just the
one unit.  Usually you just put in the document, the same as you would
to fax it, and then press the 'send' key without entering any number.
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 19:00:00 -0500
From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: OSC Goes Multilingual
Organization: NDA
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 829, Message 9 of 9

U.S. Justice Department signs up with AT&T Language Line Services

Here is a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice, which
indicates that an office within the department is now using the
services of AT&T Language Line Services.

DOJ Office on Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices Becomes
Multilingual

Contact: Obern Rainey of the Department of Justice, 202-514-2007

   WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- The U.S. Department of Justice announced
today that the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related
Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) can now communicate with victims of
discrimination in more than 140 languages.

   With the assistance of AT&T Language Line Services, OSC has gained
access to languages as varied as Haitian Creole, Laotian or Slovak,
for example.  Because OSC handles cases involving discrimination based
on national origin or citizenship status, many seeking OSC's
assistance speak languages other than English.  As a result, becoming
multi-lingual will make OSC more accessible to the public.

   Special Counsel William Ho-Gonzalez praised the new development.

   "Removal of the language barrier is a significant development that
will enhance OSC's enforcement efforts.  We expect that many people
who were deterred from contacting OSC because they did not speak
English will now feel free to inform us when they have been subjected
to discriminatory employment practices."

   OSC said that when a person who does not speak English calls, he or
she will be transferred to an interpreter who will take information on
the complaint.  Interpreters are available 24 hours a day, seven days
a week.

   OSC was created by Congress in 1987 to enforce the anti-
discrimination provision of the Immigration Reform and Control Act of
1986.  Since its inception, OSC has received over 2,500 charges.

   For additional information about IRCA's anti-discrimination
provision write or call:

     Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related
     Unfair Employment Practices
     P.O. Box 65490
     Washington, D.C.  20035-5490

     1-800-255-7688 (toll free)
     (202) 653-8121 (metropolitan D.C. area)

     TDD 1-800-237-2515 (toll free)
     (202) 296-0168 (metropolitan D.C. area)


Canada Remote Systems  - Toronto, Ontario
World's Largest PCBOARD System - 416-629-7000/629-7044
From: schear@cylink.COM (Steve Schear)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Low Noise Cordless Phone Info Wanted
Date: 9 Nov 92 01:43:11 GMT
Organization: Cylink Corp.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 836, Message 1 of 13

In article <telecom12.820.9@eecs.nwu.edu> Steven L. Johnson <johnson@
tigger.jvnc.net> writes:

> I am wondering how the newer 902/928 MHz phones (digital or analog)
> compare with the more popular 46/49 MHz ones.  I'm interested in
> comparisons or recommendations on the different noise reduction
> methods that the phones use.

> Specifically the Panasonic KX-T9000 looks interesting, but is it
> really noticably better than the best of the 46/49 MHz flavor?

The 900 MHz phones should be substantially quieter then the 46/49 MHz
variety.  This is due to the mainly to this band's relative lack of
users, and especially other cordless phones, and the reduced
interference from harmonics generated by digital devices (esp.
computers).

The digital phones will, all other things being equal, be much quieter
than the analog units, and probably only slightly more expensive. Of
the digital phones the spread-spectrum types should by far be the best
(e.g., Escort's), due to their improved noise immunity and power
output.  Whereas the analog and digital narrow band 900 MHz phones are
limited to less than one milli- watt of power output, the spread
spectrum units can legally use up to one watt (of course battery life
in the hand-held won't permit this).


sds
From: petrisko@evax2.engr.arizona.edu (William Petrisko)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Wanted: Advice on 56kbps Line/Products
Date: 8 Nov 92 10:07:02 GMT
Reply-To: petrisko@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
Organization: University of Arizona, College of Engineering and Mines, Tucson
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 829, Message 1 of 9

I was recently given the opportunity to supervise the move of a small
alarm company with offices in two different cities.  Currently, the
computers on both ends are connected with a leased 9600 baud line and
a set of async stat muxes.

Since they have to order a new line because of the move, they felt
this would be a good time to upgrade a lot of equipment.  I need
advice on setting up the new system.  They will be ordering a 56kbps
leased line for the new locations.  Questions:

What type of termination is at both ends of the 56kbps leased line?
(Is it similar to the 2-pair 9600 data leased line?)

The capability of running voice (off premise extensions, essentially)
must be included in the equipment that is purchased.  Two lines
minimum, four to six lines would be great.  It should be capable of
emulating a standard phone line (ie: not additional equipment needed
on the pbx side ... SLT extension in one end, phone in the other.
Please let me know if I am hoping for too much here.)

Suggestions on equipment to purchase/vendors to call?  Cost?

I have seen LAN bridges that will link an ethernet across a 56kbps
channel, but none that will link arcnet.  The OS they are using (QNX
2.15) can only use their own propriatary arcnet cards.  Does a LAN
bridge exist that can handle arcnet?  Convert it to a more widely-used
standard?

If link via arcnet isn't possible (or too expensive), it will have to
be done using serial lines.

In case it isn't obvious, the same piece of equipment will need to
handle both the voice and data.

Apologies for the hastiness in preparing my questions.  FYI, this
project has a deadline for completion for Feb 1, 1993.  Please send
your suggestions/experiences via e-mail.  I will summarize if
necessary.


Thanks.

bill petrisko                 petrisko@evax2.engr.arizona.edu
aka n7lwo    ..!uunet!4gen!warlok!gargle!omnisec!thumper!bill
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 92 18:06:16 CST
From: todd@valinor.mythical.com (Todd Lawrence)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Phone Directory on CD
Organization: (What? Organized??) - Mythical Computer Systems
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 832, Message 6 of 12

According to the documentation supplied with the particular ads I have
seen pertaining to the telephone listing, CD-ROM quotes that the
software to access the telephone database is supplied on the disc
itself and apparently the data is encrypted. It further goes on to say
the you CANNOT access a record given the phone number.


Todd Lawrence   Internet:  todd@valinor.mythical.com  
uucp:  uunet!valinor!todd
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 12:09:14 GMT
From: cambler@zeus.calpoly.edu (Christopher J. Ambler, Phish)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Telephone Phreaks
Organization: Fantasy, Incorporated: Reality None of Our Business.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 836, Message 6 of 13

johng@comm.mot.com (John Gilbert) recently informed us:

>> In article <telecom12.817.9@eecs.nwu.edu> mertwig!xyzzy@uunet.UU.NET
>> (Daniel Drucker) writes:

>>> Also, would someone tell me what the STD-III Information Center is?
>>> (Dial 950-1288 anywhere in the USA, 2400,8N1.)

> When I dial this I get:

>            WELCOME TO AT&T INFORMATION ACCESS SERVICE

I get:

(SIT TONES) The long distance company indication for this call is
incorrect. Please try your call again or call your long distance
company for assistance.

I have, and just verified (7005554141) that I have AT&T. I will assume
that it's an AT&T number because of the 288 (ATT).

Now I'm curious what that recording meant. Anyone?


cambler@zeus.calpoly.edu  (805) 756-6634/ISDN
Date: 5 Nov 92 17:09:31 GMT
From: briang@Sun.COM (Brian Gordon)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Airfone -- Phooey
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 826, Message 12 of 14

In article <telecom12.820.4@eecs.nwu.edu> henry@ads.com writes:
X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 820, Message 4 of 12

> rees@pisa.citi.umich.edu (Jim Rees) wrote:

>> Last night I was actually on a plane that had Airfones and I needed
>> to make a call.  The stupid thing just sat there emiting DTMF tones
>> and never gave me a dial tone.  And why is there no RJ-11 jack on it?
>> Where am I supposed to plug in my modem?  I'm not impressed.

> Is anyone happy with these things?  I've never gotten one to work to
> my satisfaction ...

It must be the luck of the draw.  I'm two for two with them.  In both
cases I just needed to call home and report that I was coming in on a
different flight, so the calls were short and not particularly
"quality demanding", but they were fine for their purpose.  At their
price, I certainly wouldn't contemplate a _long_ call.


Brian G. Gordon	    briang@Sun.COM 	briang@netcom.COM
B.GORDON2 on GENie  70243,3012 on CompuServe	BGordon on AOL
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 01:59:37 GMT
From: max@queernet.org (Max J. Rochlin)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Silent Caller From Different Numbers
Organization: QueerNet
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 831, Message 11 of 13

In article <telecom12.822.6@eecs.nwu.edu> Mike Honeycutt <ecsvax!mah@
uncecs.edu> writes:

> We are having a (minor) problem.

> A student complained about receiving frequent phone calls where the
> person does not say anything.  The call can last up to a minute then
> the caller hangs-up.  This pattern is repeated several times a week
> (weekdays only) and occurs between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.  We have
> received no other complaints (the phone numbers in our dorms are
> basically sequential) so I've ruled-out a "deamon dialer".

> Now the twist:

> Southern Bell monitored the calls and reported they were coming from
> *various* state agencies within 100 miles of Asheville!  Although this
> raised my eyebrows, Southern Bell seemed even less interested in the
> problem and has put it on a back burner.

Your problem sounds like someone mis-typed the students number in a
list and people (or other systems) are trying to connect a computer.
You might want to add a modem to the student's line and put it in
answer mode and wait for a connection.  Once you connect you can try
to find out who called by asking them (via a terminal or computer) who
they are and where they got this phone number from.


max@queernet.org  |   Max J. Rochlin
From: rice@ttd.teradyne.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: HELP Needed on JPEG Standard!
Date: 9 Nov 92 20:17:45 GMT
Organization: Teradyne Inc., Telecommunications Division
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 834, Message 8 of 11

In article <telecom12.821.5@eecs.nwu.edu>, vixen!jadams@uunet.UU.NET
(22475-adams) writes:

> In article <telecom12.818.4@eecs.nwu.edu>, jang@acsu.buffalo.edu (Euee
> S. Jang) writes:

>> Hi. I am a graduate student at Suny at Buffalo. I am about to start
>> the experimentation on JPEG. But I have no program or tool for JPEG.
>                         ^^^^----(SOFT?)
> In case you didn't know, SOFT is an acronym for Spell Out First Time!

Whatever .... Meanwhile his query is in the wrong newsgroup. JPEG is a
graphics compression algorithm and his query would be better answered
in any one of the graphics newsgroups (alt.binaries.pictures.misc,
etc).

John Rice        K9IJ     rice@ttd.teradyne.com