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Subject: Re: Touch-Tone Pads (with 'sidebar' abou - (nf)
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inmet!bloom    Jul 11 21:14:00 1983

16 button Touch-Tone    :
		    (R)

	Some years ago, I read about the DoD Autovan (spelling) network ...
they used 16 button sets, the 4th column was used to signal the priority of
the call (AA, A, B, & C, I think).

NYU's CDC 6600:

	The serial number was 4, and the machine was actually owned by the
Atomic Energy Commission (who else?).  It was installed at NYU's Courant 
Institute of Mathematical Sciences near Greenwich Village.  It was the first
machine I'd ever seen with a display console (it had two CIRCULAR CRTs), and I
recall that the disk drive was facinating too - I think it was about 3 feet in
diameter, went about 25,000rpm, and held close to nothing (by today's 
standards).
	They were, at the time (c. 1967-8) working on a timesharing system
(what was that?) call SHARER (get it?), which I believe Boeing later
turned into SHARER II.  Somewhere I have an old manual printout....


					Ray Bloom
					{harpo, ima}!inmet!bloom

P.S.  The resident computer scientist at that time was a fellow by the name
      of Henry Mullish, who has since written a couple of books.  Anybody
      ever hear of him??  Is he still alive??