Chuck,

I'm sorry for the timesink I'm about to introduce you to:

http://www.bitsavers.org/components/motorola/_dataBooks/
http://www.bitsavers.org/components/ti/_dataBooks/
http://www.bitsavers.org/components/national/_dataBooks/

Or you can just go to www.bitsavers.org for even more time consumption.



On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 9:44 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Back in the day, I was a bona-fide SLIC expert.  Subscriber Line Interface
> Circuit.  I designed and built crap that interfaced with POTS lines.  So I
> knew just about everything having to do with dial tone circuits.  Much of
> the stuff was learned by reading data manuals.  I had hundreds of them
> Blue and brown from Motorola.  Yellow from Texas Instruments.  Gray from
> Maxim.  Navy blue from National.  etc etc     Good bed time readin’
>
> *From:* Steve Jones
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 09, 2017 9:19 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ATA CallerID question
>
> Out of curiousity, i learn this nonsense from folks in the know. Where do
> folks in the know learn this shit? Is it that they were involved in the day
> when people in the service industry knew what they were doing, or prior to
> mailing lists was there some analog solution center? Like did you old folks
> hang out near your telegraph listening to everybodies conversations? Does
> it boil down to some old chinese guy sending out coded messages or what?
> Was at a customers joint the other day, an issue with ms rdp, end of the
> day, it boiled down to remote connectivity, had to disable a tertiary
> networks gpo printer and disable bitmap caching. I got this from google.
> Seperate threads and a brain connection that this was the second remote
> joint via vpn, and the two remote joints couldnt communicate.
> Customer noted the google use, i told him its cause we dont have manuals
> now.
> Is the truth that some chinese guy just answers all our google queries now
> and we are just corporate puppets?
>
> Is there only one really old rice eating fellow that actually knows the
> answers? What if he dies?
> Are we fucked if the chinaman dies?
>
> On Nov 9, 2017 4:46 PM, "Forrest Christian (List Account)" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you have call waiting, you'll often hear the caller id 'data burp'
> after the first 'call is waiting' beep...
>
> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:52 PM, Lewis Bergman <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Remember, the signal comes between rings. Unless you are listening on a
>> butt set in line or watching the info pass through a switch you wouldn't
>> see or hear it. The only reason I remembered between first and second is
>> sitting at a class 5 switch trying to figure out why caller ID was failing
>> on a feature group D trunk group and seeing them come through after one
>> ringy dingy.
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 3:46 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Is it at an inaudible frequency?  If so, then it wouldn't make it
>>> through 2600hz bandpass filters would it?  Or maybe it's audible, but so
>>> short you don't notice it? I'm fuzzy on this.
>>>
>>> I probably shouldn't ask.  I don't need to know that much about POTS
>>> anymore.
>>>
>>>
>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>> From: "Lewis Bergman" <[email protected]>
>>> To: [email protected]
>>> Sent: 11/9/2017 4:40:57 PM
>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ATA CallerID question
>>>
>>>
>>> More info than anyone probably wants to know. I found this about the
>>> original question:
>>> Caller-ID Signaling
>>>
>>> According to Telcordia specifications, CND signaling starts as early as
>>> 300 mS after the first ring burst and ends at least 475 mS before the
>>> second ring burst
>>>
>>> From here: http://www.tech-faq.com/caller-id.html
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 7, 2017 at 9:29 PM Adam Moffett <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I did not know that tone contained modulated data.  I just thought it
>>>> was a noise you wouldn't ignore.
>>>>
>>>> That's a fun fact to have.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ------ Original Message ------
>>>> From: [email protected]
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Sent: 11/7/2017 4:39:27 PM
>>>> Subject: Re: [AFMUG] ATA CallerID question
>>>>
>>>> >Monitor the line for the data burst.  It is the exact same modulation
>>>> >method as the emergency alert system you hear squawking on the TV
>>>> >before the beep and thunderstorm warning.
>>>> >
>>>> >I think it comes before the first ring or right after the first ring.
>>>> >Some of the original display units rectified and stored ring voltage
>>>> >for power so it may need the ring first to power the display box then
>>>> >the data.
>>>> >
>>>> >In any event, you can hear it if you have a butt sett with line monitor
>>>> >mode.
>>>> >Bell 202 is correct.
>>>> >
>>>> >-----Original Message----- From: Nate Burke
>>>> >Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 1:58 PM
>>>> >To: Animal Farm
>>>> >Subject: [AFMUG] ATA CallerID question
>>>> >
>>>> >At a customer, I just hooked up a Cisco SPA122 into an Ancient Lucent
>>>> >PBX system.  The customer says that caller ID is not coming through,
>>>> >but
>>>> >it used to work with his old AT&T Lines, and it appears to be hitting
>>>> >the ATA Properly.   Is there a setting on the ATA that needs to be set
>>>> >that older systems may be looking for?
>>>> >
>>>> >The only settings I see for Caller ID in the ATA are Caller ID Method,
>>>> >currently set to 'Bellcore(N.Amer,China)' and Caller ID FSK Standard,
>>>> >set to 'Bell 202'  I've never had to mess with those settings before.
>>>> >
>>>> >Nate
>>>>
>>>>
>
>
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