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- From: RICHARD@ttt.kth.se
- Subject: Re: Phone number delete (was: You know you've been hacking too long...)
- In-Reply-To: magnus@thep.lu.se's message of Thu, 12 Nov 1992 21:07:31 GMT
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- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 09:35:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.210731.15566@pollux.lu.se> magnus@thep.lu.se (Magnus Olsson) writes:
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- It should of course be possible to make telephones that store the number
- being dialled in an internal memory, and don't actually dial it until
- you press a special "dial" key. In that case, it would be possible even
-
- Oh, an "Enter" key!
-
- I can already see the announcement: "The latest in phones! With incorporated
- IBM-PC compatible computer and WordStar for editing the number!"
-
- I mean, there do exist seewing machines with some kind of computer inside.
-
- to do real editing of the number before dialling. But I suppose that
- such phones would be too hard to get used to for the computer
- illiterate masses... :-/
-
- Probably.
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