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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>
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Reply-To: jimmy@pic.ucla.edu  (Jim Gottlieb)
Organization: UCLA Program In Computing
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Summary: It's an old mechanical clunker
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In article <8805040322.AA23478@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> DREUBEN@EAGLE.WESLEYAN.EDU (Douglas Scott Reuben) writes:
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>     I've recently noticed something odd about the Bell automated alert system.
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>      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