1995-09-15 - Re: GAK

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From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Message Hash: 993989513e0c4b20eb52dad01552b997145cf40389cc3bcd0e2380e9876942cd
Message ID: <9509150104.AA03601@alpha>
Reply To: <199509150055.UAA18048@book.hks.net>
UTC Datetime: 1995-09-15 01:05:25 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 14 Sep 95 18:05:25 PDT

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From: m5@dev.tivoli.com (Mike McNally)
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 95 18:05:25 PDT
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Subject: Re: GAK
In-Reply-To: <199509150055.UAA18048@book.hks.net>
Message-ID: <9509150104.AA03601@alpha>
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Lucky Green writes:
 > Most telephones can be used to monitor conversations in the room they are
 > installed in even while on-hook. No need to ever enter the premises. Just
 > drive it with AC.  Look at your basic telephone diagram and remember
 > Xc=1/(omega*C) from your AC circuits class.

The phrase "most telephones" may have been accurate when it meant "500
sets", but now that people generally own electronic phones I wonder
whether the lucky one's statement remains true.  (It might; I'm an
electronics ignoramus.)

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