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From: amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman)
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Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone
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Date: 18 Aug 89 15:28:26 GMT
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In article  it was quoth:
>N.B. The ConTel payphones around here were all tone 3 years before NY Tel
>started installing tone payphones hereabouts. NY Tel *still* has some
>dial payphones in this area!

NYT has lots of them all over New York City today!  It is my impression that
they would rather just install a new payphone rather than convert an old one.
Although I would be *extremely* suprised if there was anyplace else with a
higher density of public phones, it's still hard to find one during peak hours.

[Digression, for those that keep track of these things: repairs on my CO
were just completed this morning after the chainsaw job someone did on it
in the middle of last week.]

 Andrew Boardman             amb@cs.columbia.edu     ROLM is a four letter
(and if you really have to, ab4@cunixc on bitnet)           word.