[Coco] I'm grilling in January in shorts and no shirt.....

John Donaldson johnadonaldson at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jan 8 21:27:09 EST 2008


I remember someone in the local COCO club back in the early 80's wrote a 
Demon Dialer program that used the cassette relay to pulse dail the 
phone. It then looked for a modem signal. If one was found the phone 
number was stored, it then dailed the next phone number in sequence.

John Donaldson


Roger Taylor wrote:

> At 04:48 PM 1/8/2008, you wrote:
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>> Not that it's a pretty sight....
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>> It is theoretically supposed to be winter in this hemisphere, even in 
>> Virginia, however experimental evidence seems to indicate otherwise...
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>> I was wondering if anyone had ever worked with pulse encoders -- like 
>> the kind pulse telephones use.  I'm working on finding new and unique 
>> ways to connect a coco to a model railroad...
>>
>>                   - Aaron
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> I also grilled a few things yesterday in shorts and a t-shirt (I'm on 
> vacation this week) then today a cold front blasted in here within a 
> few hours.  Dern it.  Winter again.
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> A long time ago I remember dialing phone numbers using pulses from my 
> old 16k CoCo 2.  I can't remember what output signals I used but I'm 
> sure it wasn't safe for the CoCo.  Ofcourse, you can dial phone 
> numbers from any OLD phone that has a manual hook.  Lift it and lower 
> it back real quick for a pulse.  A 0 is 10 pulses, though.  Just like 
> morse code, you just need to put an extra delay in between the pulse 
> sequences.
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