ROLM Phone - Revision history

Admin at 16:48, 8 December 2013

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Reaganaut at 04:32, 22 November 2012

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Cam2171 at 14:29, 2 July 2010

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Pacman at 22:07, 1 September 2009

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Foobar: /* Useful underpublicized fact */

2009-09-01T18:41:36Z

‎Useful underpublicized fact

Foobar at 18:41, 1 September 2009

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Pacman: Reverted edits by 68.81.90.128 (Talk); changed back to last version by Foobar

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Reverted edits by 68.81.90.128 (Talk); changed back to last version by Foobar

68.81.90.128: /* Contribution to Western Culture: The Little Mermaid Message */

2009-01-10T02:11:18Z

‎Contribution to Western Culture: The Little Mermaid Message

Foobar at 15:59, 30 November 2007

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Foobar: /* External links */

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‎External links

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 * [http://thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=203 Radio story] about, in part, an infamous Voicemail message forwarded all over Columbia via ROLM. Pre-dates viral email spam.
 * [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/connection/connect/mycu/2996.html Posting] on "My Columbia" by the recipient of the original message.
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-'''ROLM Phones''' make up the campus-wide phone system. Student phone numbers are 212-853-xxxx. Administration and faculty phone numbers are 212-854-xxxx. Standard ROLM Phone units have free on-campus dialing, voice mail, call forwarding, call waiting, and a one-way speaker phone.
+'''ROLM Phones''' (pronounced "rahlm") make up the campus-wide phone system. Phone numbers for student rooms in the residence halls are 212-853-xxxx. Administration and faculty phone numbers are 212-854-xxxx. Standard ROLM Phone units have free on-campus dialing, voice mail, call forwarding, call waiting, and a one-way speaker phone.  In 2010, Columbia announced that it was ditching ACUS, the AT&T Campus phone service, and doing its phone service in-house.  This means that students will no longer have to deal with paying AT&T for any calls made on the ROLM phone--instead they will be billed directly to a student account.
 Before ROLM, there was [[CENTREX]]. Then, ROLM was installed, circa [[1988]]. But of course, as the saying goes, ROLM wasn't built in a day. Initially, the system was a useful medium for connecting members of the campus. However, ROLM phones are now generally unused by students, who opt instead for the many more convenient forms of inter-campus communication such as [[e-mail]], [[instant messaging]], and [[cell phones]].
-Campus wide phone messages sent to ROLM phones absolutely never contain useful information that cannot be obtained elsewhere quicker and more conveniently. A folded piece of paper tucked under the plastic faceplate is an effective way to hide the annoying red blinking light.
+Campus wide phone messages sent to ROLM phones absolutely never contain useful information that cannot be obtained elsewhere quicker and more conveniently. A folded piece of paper tucked under the plastic faceplate is an effective way to hide the annoying red blinking light.  Or you could just unplug the phone.
 The signature icon of the ROLM phone is the [[ROLM Phone Lady]], who supplies the voice for university announcements sent out over the system.

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 The signature icon of the ROLM phone is the [[ROLM Phone Lady]], who supplies the voice for university announcements sent out over the system.
-The saga of a ROLM-phone message which was forwarded all over campus by students is difficult to explain. Fortunately there is a section of an episode of NPR's "this american life" devoted to explaining it (See links below).
+==Accessing voicemail off campus ==
-== Useful underpublicized fact ==
+== Contribution to Western Culture: The Little Mermaid Message ==
-The phone number for getting your voicemail from off campus is 854-7916. In a typically opaque CU fashion, this fact is listed nowhere on columbia's own webpages.
+The saga of a ROLM-phone message which was forwarded all over campus by students is difficult to explain. Fortunately there is a section of an episode of NPR's "this american life" devoted to explaining it (See links below).
 == External links ==

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 == Useful underpublicized fact ==
-The phone number for getting your voicemail from off campus is 854-7916. Oddly this fact is listed nowhere on columbia's own webpages.
+The phone number for getting your voicemail from off campus is 854-7916. In a typically opaque CU fashion, this fact is listed nowhere on columbia's own webpages.
 == External links ==

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	The saga of a ROLM-phone message which was forwarded all over campus by students is difficult to explain. Fortunately there is a section of an episode of NPR's "this american life" devoted to explaining it (See links below).		The saga of a ROLM-phone message which was forwarded all over campus by students is difficult to explain. Fortunately there is a section of an episode of NPR's "this american life" devoted to explaining it (See links below).
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		+	The phone number for getting your voicemail from off campus is 854-7916. Oddly this fact is listed nowhere on columbia's own webpages.

	== External links ==		== External links ==