I've got a good collection still here in boxes, haven't had a chance to go
through them yet.

I think the plan will be to verify I have a .pdf copy of the ones I care of
and then sell/discard/donate to the cause as appropriate.

On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 10:17 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Oh man!  I had forgotten how many different data manuals there were and I
> had most of them too.
> Wow....
>
> *From:* Forrest Christian (List Account)
> *Sent:* Thursday, November 09, 2017 10:12 PM
> *To:* af
> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] ATA CallerID question
>
> 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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