Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: amb@cs.columbia.edu (Andrew Boardman) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 100th Anniversary of the Pay Phone Message-ID:Date: 18 Aug 89 15:28:26 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Columbia University Department of Computer Science Lines: 16 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 307, message 1 of 8 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.