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From: asuvax!mothra!bakerj@ncar.ucar.edu (Jon Baker)
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Subject: Re: Best and Worst (was: Labor Day, 1990)
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In article <11894@accuvax.nwu.edu>, rees@pisa.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
writes:

>there is no provision for non-subscribers to pay for phone calls.

Sure there is -- get a huge bag full of quarters.

>on the order of $3 a minute.  That's 12 coins of the largest
>denomination accepted by a pay phone.

So bring back the SBA dollar, or put currency-eaters on pay phones.

In article <11911@accuvax.nwu.edu>, gutierre@nsipo.nasa.gov writes:

> > Do away with coin-operated phones.  Replace them with phones that take
> > a smart card.

> This is an excellent idea that AT&T should have adopted before `ol
> Harry broke them up (that's Judge Harold "Equal Access" Greene to
> you!)

(sure that wasn't Judge Harry T. Stone?)

> But this is now impossible with the poliferation of the
> one-armed bandits ...errr ... COCOTS, and different Long Distance
> companies now.

Not at all impossible - if Judge Greene decrees, it shall be so.
     
    
Jon Baker