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From: edward@pro-harvest.cts.com (Edward Floden)
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Subject: Re: Which Came First?
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Date: 6 Oct 90 02:23:41 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from julian@bongo.uucp

> Operator consoles follow normal telco practice. By the way,
> TIE once had a combined calculator/phone. I never saw one, so I wonder
> what the number pad was like.

That was the TIE SmartSet. And the keypad was the telephone-standard
1-2-3, not the calculator 7-8-9. Fortunately, I rarely needed to use
the calculator feature when I had one of those turkeys (the
microswitches used in the hookswitch circuit failed too often, IMHO).


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