#: 57470 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    08-Aug-96  17:06:55
Sb: #log on from pay phone
Fm: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110
To: All

the new AT&T 2000 pay phones have data ports and enable the well-prepared Z
user to log on, send and receive e mail, pull down stock quotes, etc. from
public places such as airports.  having just read about the new phones in the
current issue of PC Magazine, i hunted them down recently in the miami
airport.  they were not located with the rest of the telephones on the main
terminal floor, but instead are installed on the 7th floor of the hotel in the
airport.  fortunately, the attendant in the info booth knew about them and was
able to tell me where to find them.

it took me a while to figure out how to integrate my calling card number in to
the dialing protocol.    the instructions on the phone itself are none too
clear.  i finally resorted to calling the 800   number given at the end of the
instructions.  i was connected to a bright woman, obviously a computer user,
who told me to forget the instructions on the phone and follow her
instructions instead.  so, here is what finally worked for me:

in your dialing set up line in CCZ enter 0 followed immediately by the cserve
telephone number you using.  do not  put a comma or other pause indicator
between the 0 and the telephone number.  this delay confuses the system and
makes it want to connect you to an operator.   following the cserve telephone
number, enter three commas followed by your AT&T calling card number.  to fit
all these digits in you need to remove any dashes from the cserve telephone
number.  then, set up your Z and modem and plug your modem cable into the rj11
slot on the phone.   now turn on your Z, open up CCZ and have it ready to
connect.  next, pick up the receiver on the phone, wait for the dial tone, and
when you hear it tap "connect" or "new mail" in CCZ.  the Z begins to  dial.
you are listening in on the telephone receiverand will hear the Z dialing.
you will then hear the voice ask you to enter your calling card number.  this
seems unnecessary, given that your dialing string included your calling card
number, but it happens.  so, enter your calling card number on the keypad on
the telephone.   you will eventually hear the phone connect to the cserve
number, which will emit a high-pitched tone.  hang up the receiver immediately
(i.e., within 5 seconds) upon hearing the tone.  the Z will take over
completely at this point and send you sailing out in to cyberspace.

in all, the new phones are a helpful resource when you are on the fly and must
stay in touch and lack either a reliable cellular telephone connection or
access to the first or business class lounges.

final humorous note:  i found it awkward to compose replies to e mail messages
while standing at the pay phone with my Z set up on the shelf below the phone,
so i knelt down.  this prompted the caller  next to me to interrupt his
furious conversation with his secretary and ask me if i was engaged in prayer
to some sort of new god.

ed stadum
via Z1 and CCZ

#: 57477 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    08-Aug-96  18:54:33
Sb: #57470-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Bo Lorentzen (Sysop) 75300,2517
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

Ed.

I sure hope that you promptly answered YES. <g>

Thanks for the exelent instructions.

  Bo

#: 57542 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    09-Aug-96  07:50:20
Sb: #57477-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110
To: Bo Lorentzen (Sysop) 75300,2517 (X)

Bo,
        I had no choice under the circumstances but to answer "Yes."  He had
me.

Ed

#: 57562 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    09-Aug-96  09:31:23
Sb: #57542-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Bo Lorentzen (Sysop) 75300,2517
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

Ed

Send that story into the Readers Digest  "Life in these united states"  They
will fech you $300 for that story,  about you being caught worshipping your
PDA in the Airport
.

   Bo

#: 57666 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  06:41:35
Sb: #57562-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110
To: Bo Lorentzen (Sysop) 75300,2517 (X)

Thanks for the suggestion, Bo.  I have not seen a Reader's Digest since I was
a boy visiting my Grandmother's house in Berkeley.  I would not know where to
send it.

My neighbor at the public telephone bank in the airport certainly had a point,
didn't he?  It must have looked like an act of devotion, performed at the
shrine of my Zaurus, to the great Being in Cyberspace who decides whether we
get on-line or not and whether or not our little e mail packets find their
complicated myriad paths to the right destination.  Heaven knows, in the
course of learning to get on line with my Z1 I have often prayed for that
magical message that tells me I am connected and on line.  Having only a
glimmer of understanding of the true technical underpinning of communications
in Cyberspace, what is it but an act of faith on my part that we are all
actually connected to each other out there?

Ed 

#: 57676 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  08:30:02
Sb: #57666-log on from pay phone
Fm: Bo Lorentzen (Sysop) 75300,2517
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

LOL

   Bo

#: 57662 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  05:02:52
Sb: #57470-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Leo Boivin 104445,1403
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

>>the new AT&T 2000 pay phones have data ports and enable the well-prepared Z
user to log on, send and receive e mail<<

Humm...I may have missed something.  At some place with a large airport, why
not just call the CompuServe 800 number and get the local access number and
log on that way?  Or were you not logging on to CompuServe?

My problem is logging on internationally from a country without automated AT&T
access and no local CIS number.

Cheers,
Leo

#: 57668 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  06:55:53
Sb: #57662-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110
To: Leo Boivin 104445,1403 (X)

Leo,
        Remember, the AT&T 2000 phones compel you to use a calling card or
credit card even to make a local call.  I was in fact making a local call to
the CompuServe number in Miami.  The problem I encountered was how to "pay"
for that local call while dialing in with my Zaurus.  The advice I got from
AT&T was to enter my calling card number in to my dialing string in my set up
window.  If fact, however, I wound up inputting the calling card number on the
telephone in response to the voice prompt which I heard in the receiver before
connecting and subsequently hanging the receiver up.  If I had to do it again
I would try dropping the calling card number out of my dialing string, but
leaving the row of three commas (so as to prevent the Z from timing out before
I got connected), then proceeding as indicated in my earlier message.

I do not know how this might play out outside of the U.S.  There may be no
public phones with data ports available outside of the U.S.  At least in
Europe, where I am, there are plenty of local CompuServe nodes, so there
normally would be no need to use a credit card or calling card, either you are
in a private home or in a hotel and a card would be unnecessary.  You have
piqued my curiousity, however.  I will try to dial up a U.S. CompuServe number
from my home in Dusseldorf and see if I can pay for it with my calling card.
Just once, for fun.

Ed 

#: 57708 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  14:56:04
Sb: #57668-log on from pay phone
Fm: Leo Boivin 104445,1403
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

>>Remember, the AT&T 2000 phones compel you to use a calling card or credit
card even to make a local call.<<

Ahhhh...I have one of those cards, but never used one for a local call.  In
fact, those phones are so complicated I prefer to find a regular phone and
dial the 800 number and enter the number I want and my card number (which I've
memorized, so it doesn't slow me down).

Let me know how you get on.

Cheers,
Leo

#: 57685 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  09:40:28
Sb: #57470-log on from pay phone
Fm: Jim Christian 74777,2604
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

Good post, Ed, thanks.


#: 57515 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    09-Aug-96  02:28:40
Sb: #log on from pay phone
Fm: Calvin Wong 100314,1710
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

Edward

You had more luck than I did.  I tried for ages at San Francisco airport.  The
difference was, I didn't have an ATT card, so I was using my credit card.

After the Z did the dialling, the screen on the phone asked me to swipe my
card, and it was verifying it - by the time the call got through (ie high
pitch noise), I think the Z timed out.  I wasn't in the mood to figure out how
to lengthen the no response time.

The booths at SFO had seats, so I didn't have to pray (may be that's why I
didn't get through...)

One of these days I will figure it out!  Perhaps next time I will use an 800
number to save me the bother.

Calvin

#: 57546 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    09-Aug-96  08:11:01
Sb: #57515-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110
To: Calvin Wong 100314,1710 (X)

Calvin,
        I think I see what happened to you.  The Z did time out.   I suggest
you enter a string of commas after your local cserve node in the Phone Number
line in the Setup window.  I think that has the effect of delaying the time
out.  To the same effect, and perhaps better, you might increase the "Timeout
if NOT Connected in"  entry, which in my CCZ is set by default at 30 Seconds,
to a larger number.  Come to think of it, that must be the right way to do it.

 Good luck.  You were right, by the way, the CCZ software is really a
wonderful improvement for the Z1.  Mind you, it takes a rocket scientist to
load it, but the result is definitely worth the trouble.

Ed 

#: 57642 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    09-Aug-96  20:28:19
Sb: #57546-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Calvin Wong 100314,1710
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

Ed

> you might increase the "Timeout if NOT Connected in"  entry, which in my CCZ
is set by default at 30 Seconds, to a larger number.  Come to think of it,
that must be the right way to do it. <

Thanks, I knew there must be a simpler way than using modem init string!

>You were right, by the way, the CCZ software is really a wonderful
improvement for the Z1.  Mind you, it takes a rocket scientist to load it, but
the result is definitely worth the trouble.<

Makes you wonder how you survived on the terminal mode for so long, doesn't
it?  After getting the CCZ on the card, I am still trying to figure out how to
get more s/w on the remaining 768K on the same card (while trying to complete
my degree in astronautical engineering)! <g>

Calvin

#: 57669 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  06:59:28
Sb: #57642-#log on from pay phone
Fm: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110
To: Calvin Wong 100314,1710 (X)

Calvin,
        By all means let us know if you succeed it loading anything else on to
your CCZ card.  That would be a significant step forward.  I fear you may have
to go on the the post doctoral rocket science program, however, in order to
learn how to do it.

Ed

#: 57733 S9/Sharp Zaurus
    10-Aug-96  23:54:28
Sb: #57669-log on from pay phone
Fm: Calvin Wong 100314,1710
To: Edward M. Stadum 100322,110 (X)

Ed

> I fear you may have to go on the the post doctoral rocket science program,
however, in order to learn how to do it.<

LOL!  or brave the 1-800-be-sharp gaunlet.

Calvin


