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From: hrs1@cbnewsi.ATT.COM (herman.r.silbiger)
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Subject: Re: Dutch, British Telecom (was Billing and Answer Supervision)
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Date: 13 Apr 90 03:26:12 GMT
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In article <6125@accuvax.nwu.edu>, john@bovine.ati.com (John Higdon) writes:

> windowless room that had an entire wall of mechanical digital
> counters.  I was told that these were for traffic analysis, not for
> billing. 

You are right, that's what they were used for.  Interestingly enough,
these counters were made in Geneva, Switzerland by SODECO.  They were
probably the same counters used by the PTTs for billing.  I still have
a few in a cigar box in my workshop.


Herman Silbiger