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Experimeiltal Unit
For Telephones j Would’ you I ke to telephone , your Aunt Susie or other frequently called friends or businesses without dialing? ■'*] ' V
j Chances are you may someday, 1 according to J. R. Brown local manager of' The Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone* Company of , Virginia. He announced that a new experimental telephone unit which hoots up next to your present phone has been developed to do the dialing for you.
Brown says' the new unit, known as a r e p e t t,o r y dialer dhbuld be a boon to businessmen, secretaries and homemakers who y ' regularly dial the - same* numbers^ “Instead of giving me dial from .five to seven twists day in and day out." Brown explains, “you just move an indicator to the name of the person or company on a preset list of oQ that you want to I call." '
“Then you lift your rece.ver, press a bar and the dialing .is done .automatically." •
The repertory dialer, developed by Bell Telephone Laboratories, i i$ now being tested by 75 businessmen *in Akron, Ohio. Such equip- :* met, after it has been tried* out and perfected, will ultimately be made .available to all telephone users— The first trial of telephone electronic switching equipment is scheduled for Morris, 111., in late (1959. Brown concluded, “Compart ed to present .central office; equip| ment, the ne\y electronic equip‘ ment would greatly speed up telephone service and promises to, be less expensive than today’s.’
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