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- Date: 14 AUG 92 15:04
- From: MPA15C!ARTHUR@TRENGA.tredydev.unisys.com
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: L O U D Indoor Ringer Wanted
- Message-ID: <telecom12.628.3@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: TELECOM Digest
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 628, Message 3 of 11
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- Pat, I've been pleasantly inundated with responses to this request,
- and as some folks were interested in what I found out, can I take a
- few lines to summarize? First of all, thanks everyone! There were
- far too many of you to easily send individual thanks, as our gateway
- to Internet is somewhat awkward.
-
- Many folks referred to the Radio Shack catalogue. I erroneously
- thought that the loud bells had been defenestrated from the RS
- catalogue, but it turned out my own catalogue had had that page
- mangled and folded under. My error. Interestingly, most Radio Shack
- stores used to carry that item in stock, but at least around here the
- several stores I frequent seem not to keep it out on the shelf. That
- contributed to my belief that it had been dropped.
-
- I received several mentions of Hello Direct, apparently a well-known
- firm but unfamiliar to me. Others talked of contacting support
- organizations for the hearing impaired, and others mentioned the
- devices that flash lights or strobes in response to detecting ring.
- Several folks suggested plugging obnoxiously loud things like blenders
- into such a device! There were other references to firms marketing
- ringers for such locations as factory floors and for farms.
-
- I ended up purchasing an old, pre-breakup Bell external ring unit from
- a gentleman who had it just gathering dust in the garage. It arrived
- yesterday, and seems quite (but not EXCRUTIATINGLY) loud. I'll be
- visiting the victim early next month, so we'll see if the unit
- suffices. If not, we'll go with one of the "heavy hitters".
-
-
- Arthur L. Shapiro ARTHUR%MPA15C@TRENGA.TREDYDEV.UNISYS.COM
- Software Engineering
- Unisys Corporation Speaking as a civilian, rather than for
- Mission Viejo, CA Unisys, unless this box is checked: [ ]
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