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From: bnrgate!.bnr.ca!hwt@uunet.uu.net (Henry Troup)
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Subject: Re: White House Phone Trivia (Was: Touchtone History)
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Date: 16 Jul 90 20:41:09 GMT
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In article <9761@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E.
Kimberlin) writes:

>2.) The WHCA itself still doesn't know how to maintain anything but
>good old 1A Key Telephone equipment;

Nope, a few years ago (3-4?) I saw a newspaper story - maybe trade
press - about the installation of a DMS-100/SL-100 on Pennsylvania
Avenue to service the White House.  Don't recall if it was a PBX or
telco, but I remember that special security - at the locked steel door
level - was involved.


Henry Troup - BNR owns but does not share my opinions 
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