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From: nol2105%dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil@dsac.dla.mil (Robert E. Zabloudil)
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Subject: Re: Use of Phones to Give Theatre Schedule Information
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Date: 25 Oct 90 15:14:30 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 762, Message 6 of 13


In article <13914@accuvax.nwu.edu> CAPEK%YKTVMT.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu
(Peter G. Capek) writes:

>X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 755, Message 1 of 11

Gosh, I hope I'm not too far behind reading the Digest...

>While trying to get the schedule from a local octoplex movie theatre
>recently, it occurred to me that it would be to the advantage of both
>the theatre operator and the local exchange carrier to allow multiple
>incoming calls "get through" to the theatre's recording at the same
>time.  I believe that there are services which allow this on a
>nationwide basis, or even on a local basis through a special exchange,

One of my previous jobs involved as a side duty the regular updating
of the "KRVR Weather Line", which did indeed allow multiple callers to
hear the same recording at the same time.  I never got bold enough to
dig into the 'inner workings', but we always ended our spiel with, "If
you called in the middle, the message repeats", which it would, once.
I'm sure there was a nationwide marketer of these 'boxes' that got a
kickback of the commercial message we recorded along with the weather
and condx, but that wasn't part of what we needed to know to do our
part.  

By the way, we were supposed to "wait for the green light to go out"
before updating the message.  On the day of the 1978 blizzard, we had
to cutover to the 'short' message in the middle of a call several
times ... hope the vast masses understood.  


[Moderator's Note: 'The vast masses' ?? ... Gosh, now you are
beginning to sound like a certain gas-bag radio commentator on WFMT in
Chicago, or a particularly arrogant columnist for {The Washington
Post}.  :)   PAT]