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- Newsgroups: alt.2600
- Subject: Cocots which were untouchable are no more!
- Date: Sun Jun 12 15:15:06 1994
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- Have you ever tried to use that 1-800 trick to use a cocot and it refuses to
- give you that beloved unrestricted dialtone? The reason that I have been told
- for this is that the system does not reset if you make the call, which can
- be supported by making the same type of call from your own phone. I did and
- it did not reset either! But a friend of mine has found a way around this.
-
- What you need to find (according to my friend) is a set of two cocots which
- sit next to each other. Using the number listed on the phones, or the current
- ani you have, call one phone from the other phone. As soon as the other phone
- rings pick it up and hang up the phone you made the call from. You ought to
- have an unrestricted dialtone on that phone!
-
- You see what happens is that the system will not reset if you make the call,
- but if someone else makes the call and they hang up it will reset. The best
- part (according to this friend) is that the quarter you use to make the call
- drops out, apparently because the call was so short, who knows.
-
- Some other tricks he has found with cocots include calling these cocots from
- home, wherein the modem inside the machine picks up and transmits a small
- bit of data at 300 baud. The information includes its address, the current
- date and time, and how much money is inside its coinbox. Afterwhich it hangs
- up. Pretty neat eh?
-
- This friend also found that by picking up some cocots and pressing #*2 or
- other #* combinations, that the modem will pick up, dial phone number, connect
- to a system and transmit data! Weird eh? Some other combinations include
- error messages and on one machine **# entered into a menu system that could
- change the time and default number to call when you hit #*2, and even the
- option to turn it off (though my friend is likely bullshitting about turning
- it off). Also, I might have the *# thingy backwards.
-
- Anyways, I thought I would just pass this information on.
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