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Potato Key
This is a 'break' key; or, 'end' of entry key to be inserted between numerical entries when navigating automated phone call switching equipment. | |
You've called your service often enough to have learned the first 13 keystrokes to reach the extension you need, but now the system makes you wait until it finishes reading your last input or it makes you wait through a recorded list of choices before you can enter your next number.
With the Potato
Key, you enter the sequence:
Press two to continue in Spanish, one to continue in English
Press one if you know your party's extension, press two to hear a directory
Enter your party's extension, followed by the pound sign
as,
One <Potato Key>
One <Potato Key>
Zero
# <Potato Key>
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Potato key. Good name. I had a phone
once that had a pause button (labeled 'P'
-- potato?) which waited for three seconds
if you pushed it. You could program it into
its speed dial memories. |
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How would yours work? Would it just be a
pause or are you looking for two-way
interaction between the phone service and
your phone? |
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Shouldn't that sequence be 1 <potato> 2 <potato> 3 <potato> 4...? |
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Sorry, I don't understand. Is it a button which inserts a pause in a stream of keypresses? |
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Yeah, you'll normally find that each menu has 1-9 choices, expects a certain number of digits, or asks to to use the 'pound' (I call it a 'sharp' but anyway) key to act as an EOF delimiter. |
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It all depends on how the telephone system is organised, so rather than adding an extra key (and losing the nice rectangular property of an arrangement of 12 keys *, 0, #, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) but why not just add 'potato' to the list of names the pound/sharp/ hash/number/thingie key (#) has already accumulated. |
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My old LD-dialling telephone had this for its memory keys, because some PABX switchboards required it. If I can find the instruction book, I'll scan and post the relevant page.
Why 'Potato Key'? |
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Because 'Mississippi Key' seemed awkward. |
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I'm sure that you understand that explanation. |
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Ah, but you like "potato", while I like "potato", you like "tomato" and I like "tomato".
Potato, potato, tomato, tomato, let's call the whole thing off..
Doesn't work when you write it down, does it? |
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4 potato 3 potato 2 potato 1 |
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All potatoes playing in the bright warm sun... |
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if someone has already done this will it be a baked potato? |
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[DrCurry]: 5 <potato> 6 <potato> 7
<potato> More. |
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What's the answer to [st3f]'s question? |
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