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From: Don H Kemp <uvm-gen!teletech!dhk@uunet.uu.net>
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Subject: Re: "Columbo" TV Episode, 6/10/90
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Date: 12 Jun 90 13:29:31 GMT
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 From article <8841@accuvax.nwu.edu>, by gutierre@calvin.arc.nasa.gov
(Robert Gutierrez):
 
[Discussion of episode deleted]

>    Second.  Lt. Columbo was amazed by the amount of buttons on the
> phone of the victim's desk. ...

> Columbo was (again) amazed by the latest TELECOM technology, the
> viewing public got to see that the telephone set was....an AT&T ISDN
> set! (a model 7352 or 7532 ?).  Yes, we know ISDN isn't available to
> individuals, much less small businesses, but, is this what a typical
	       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
Dale Mullen, a Telecom Consultant in Englewood, CO, is going to be
very dissapointed to hear that.  Dale has been using two ISDN lines
(with AT&T 75xx phones) for about a year and a half now, and likes it
fine.

> ISDN set is going to look like (or at least an AT&T vision of an ISDN
> set)? ...

The ISDN sets that I've seen, from AT&T and NTI, are _very_ similar in
appearance and function to the manufacturer's multi-button sets for
their PBXs.
 
>Thanks.

You're welcome.


Don H Kemp		
B B & K Associates, Inc.
Rutland, VT		
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