2023 Year In Review

We shall mention the more notable events.

• One new public phone was installed, and another new phone in a beer garden.
• “Increasing Achievements with Operant Conditioning” was presented at ftp://con.
• “How And Why To Gain Technological Advantages By Harvesting Entropy From An Unsuspecting Public” was presented at BSidesPDX.
• “Futel: For Whom The Dial Tones” was presented at Teardown.
• An occasionally working prototype of “Give Me Central 209” was exhibited at Teardown.
• Party Line #8 was published, available from Microcosm Publishing.
• A RACC Arts3C grant provided operating and development support.

Usage for the year included:

• Tens of thousands of handset pickups.
• Over 11,600 outgoing calls from a dialtone.
• Only 858 calls to the incoming line and it was printed in 2600?
• 358 listens to the most popular Church of Robotron sermon, “The Ninth Position”.
• 609 joins to the voice conference.
• 315 calls to the Payphone Demultiplexer.
• 152 attempts to bridge the Payphone Demultiplexer to the voice conference, sorry!
• 74 calls to the Druids of Sisyphus Gardens? Call the Druids!
• 66 calls to the mayor of Portland. Increased calls to the mayors of Detroit and Ypsilanti.
• 11 callers poking around the honeypot.