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From: Jerry Leichter (LEICHTER-JERRY@CS.YALE.EDU) <leichter@lrw.com>
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Date: 14 Aug 90 15:02:40 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 572, Message 6 of 10


	The Lady With the Torch Wants Your 2 Cents Worth (and $15)

Got $15 spare and an opinion on the meaning of liberty?  Now, you can
record it in a data bank in the Statue of Liberty.  The money will go
toward improving the historical museum in the statue's pedestal.  A
key supporter of the museum, George M. White, Architect of the U.S.
Capitol, set up the fund-raising effort with help from American
Telephone and Telegraph Co.  Contributors can dial 1 800 LADYLIB, and
an operator will take their donations via credit card and type their
statements into a computer.

The messages will be stored on an AT&T machine in the museum and
visitors will be able to read them one by one or find messages by
entering the donors' names and hometowns.  The first contributor, AT&T
Chairman Robert E. Allen, wrote "Liberty is coming of age in the Age
of Information."

[From Business Week, August 6, 1990.  Page 70A.  That page is Business
Week's "Information Processing" column; they also have a "Developments
to Watch" column.  Both columns often contain articles of interest of
TELECOM readers.  For example, the August 6th "IP" column has articles
about Chevron's replace- ment of ship-to-shore telex to its oil
tankers with a PC-based Email system, and about a $60 device to
connect your phone to your PC and use Caller-ID to look up the name of
your caller; while the "DTW" column has articles on a "RobotOperator"
which provides access to a database keyed off of Caller-ID, and about
a new chipset for "smart TV's" that contains enough power to do all
sorts of fancy processing - so you'll be able to by ROM chips with
programming for new options.  A bigger haul than most weeks, but a
quick survey shows that there is usually at least one telecom-related
article per issue.]


Jerry