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From: taras@utgpu.UUCP
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Subject: Re: RingMaster service
Message-ID: <1987Oct3.221653.19564@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Sat, 3-Oct-87 22:16:53 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct  3 22:16:53 1987
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In article <8709161804.AA00673@ima.ISC.COM> think!ima!johnl@EDDIE.MIT.EDU (John R. Levine) writes:
# Sounds like a clever way to get some revenue from CO equipment that has to be
# present anyway to support the dwindling number of party lines.


I dunno.  All the new equipment is electronic and does not require any 
extra hardware to support RingMaster service.  Party line service was 
supported on step by step type exchanges, amoung others, and I am sure
that some poor old telco engineer would not want to install that equipment
on their new modern exchanges.  Besides that old equipment is usually more
valuable as scrap.
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