Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!pic.ucla.EDU!jimmy From: jimmy@pic.ucla.EDU Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Automated Alert System Message-ID: <11969@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Date: 5 May 88 06:33:14 GMT References: <8805040322.AA23478@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: jimmy@pic.ucla.edu (Jim Gottlieb) Organization: UCLA Program In Computing Lines: 14 Summary: It's an old mechanical clunker Approved: telecom@xx.lcs.mit.edu In article <8805040322.AA23478@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> DREUBEN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (Douglas Scott Reuben) writes: > > > I've recently noticed something odd about the Bell automated alert system. > > I have noticed that whenever one gets one of these messages, in the >background, one can hear many other messages at the same time. Those machines are mechanical with the voice stored on drums. Need I say more? GTE's are newer digital ones (since they were at least 10 years late in getting them). jimmy@denwa.UUCP