Telephone-question...

Short answer, no.

In most places, there is a special number you call and a voice response reads your phone number to you. Another number, or just dialing your own number, does a 'ringback' to your phone.

Any phone phreaks around?

Luhan

You could call someone who has Caller ID.

John

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Or call your cell phone.

Just had to withdraw an approved order for a factory-reconditioned Tek TDS

7704B digital scope, due to, *ahem*, organizational issues. It may be a Windows machine, but it's pretty nice otherwise, and the price was within my (now vanished) budget of $50k.

One thing I notice is that at present the fastest Agilent scopes have better specs than the Tek ones--especially about 10 dB lower jitter, 0.5 ps vs 1.5 ps, wider offset range, lower noise--though they're significantly more expensive per gigahertz.

We were discussing the current apparent goodness of the HP (sorry, Flat--excuse me, Agilent) scopes the other day...does anybody have hands-on experience with the fastest Agilent scopes?

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Phil Hobbs

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Surely that /is/ calling someone with Caller ID.

Tim

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Try the HP 130-C.

It was the last decent oscilloscope HP ever built. Steadily downhill from there.

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I was too modest to point that out.

John

Of course, but what I was wondering was if it is possible to retreive the phone-number automatically, ie. without relying on another person to give you this information. In other words, is there any available service built into the phone-network which lets you look up your own phone number?

According to Luhan this is not possible, so I guess that answers my question...

There is. Phone service techs know a whole set of magic numbers that you dial to do stuff like this. I bet they're on the web somewhere.

John

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I had a long-winded reply about how I had had a phone installed in a new house and the technician left without telling me what the number is, so I just called my cellphone to get the number, then called back from the cell phone to confirm it, and how it was a free transaction because I didn't answer either call, and how I was thinking the whole time that I didn't really need the land line any more, but that our guests might, so we went ahead and installed it (I'm still not decided whether to discuss the fact that the new service is "wired" with fiber optic cable to the transition box, so we could have 4 line, cable tv and broadband internet even though we only want a single POTS line and we already have a separate cable tv/internet service connected, and I certainly wouldn't go into how the phone died after about a week (the technician hooked up the power supply wrong and the battery eventually gave out)) but it was too hot to type that much so I just shortened it down to the essential meat.

Re-read the Luhan response. You do not understand it yet.

In Australia, ( and perhaps other parts of world), you can use the info here..

Or for other phone info,

This info is probably only for voice-reply, but being an automated response, it may be easy enough to decode the voice using some simple, but clever SW / Firmware & analog sampling/demodulation method.

David Merrett

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From some where on the web... Cheers

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