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Special Numbers at the UW

Here's what you get when you dial special numbers from a public courtesy phone at the UW.

A number ending in x means that every (not otherwise listed) digit which was tried in the place of that x gave the result indicated. NC means that the call couldn't be completed, and warble is the crazy vacant-level tone we have here at the UW.

A number noted with ? just gives an empty line and thus deserves further investigation, as do all dialtones.

*11 - dialtone
*12x - NC
*13x - NC
*14x - NC
*15x - NC
*168 - dialtone
*16x - NC
*172 - dialtone (apparently forward-all-calls on a PBX)
*173 - dialtone
*174 - dialtone
*178 - dialtone
*179 - dialtone
*17x - NC
*18x - NC
*19x - NC
*199 - dialtone
*19x - NC
*1*0 - dialtone
*10 - dialtone
*1# - NC
*21 - dialtone
*22 - dialtone
*23 - dialtone
*24 - dialtone
*25 - dialtone
*29 - warble
*20 - dialtone
*2x - NC
*31 - warble
*32 - warble
*33 - dialtone
*34 - dialtone
*35 - dialtone
*38 - dialtone
*39 - warble
*3*x - NC
*421 - dialtone
*42x - NC
*43x - NC
*44 - NC
*45 - dialtone
*46 - NC
*471 - dialtone
*472 - dialtone
*473 - 3-stutter

(here I stopped and skipped to *5)

*52 - busy
*53 - warble (flash-*53 parks a call)
*54 - unpark elsewhere-parked call
*56 - warble
*57 - dialtone
*58 - dialtone
*59 - dialtone
*50 - busy
*5* - NC
*5# - NC
*65 - dialtone
*66 - warble
*67 - dialtone
*68 - dialtone
*6x - ?
*70 - disable call waiting
*71 - dialtone
*73 - cancel do-not-disturb
*74 - dialtone
*75 - dialtone
*751N[...]# - program speed dial slot N (unlimited digits, apparently)
*76 - NC
*77 - NC
*78 - 3-stutter (turn off forwarding)
*79 - enable forward all calls to voicemail
*7# - NC
*82 - dialtone
*85 - dialtone
*86 - busy
*88 - dialtone
*94 - dialtone
*94 - dialtone
*96 - warble
**x - NC
*#x - NC

#1N - speed-dial slot N
#2 - warble
#3 - dialtone
#312 - voicemail
#310 - NC
#31x - warble
#329 - 3-stutter
#32x - warble
#333 - some voicemail
#340 - Student Telephone Services
#356 - dialtone (outside line)
#366 - ?
#369 - 3-stutter
#377 - dialtone
#379 - do-not-disturb (all calls to voicemail)
#38x - NC
#391 - ?
#3911 - calls 911, surprisingly
#399 - ANI
#3xx - warble
#3* - warble
#30x - pager?
#4x - NC
#5 - warble
#6xx - NC
#7 - warble
#8 - ?
#9 - redial
#*x - warble
#030 - busy
#091 - busy
## - ?
#0xx - NC