Paul.Schleck@iugate.unomaha.edu (Paul Schleck) (03/10/91)
An acquaintance of mine is looking for either a model 1600 or model 6400 autodialer that was sold/leased by the phone company. It seems that these "demon dialers" were so effective that a significant number of them on the line at any given time chugging away put some serious loads on the AT&T long lines. It is my understanding that AT&T took back as many as it could get its hands on and those that were part of phones had the autodialer part taken out before being leased out again or sold to the surplus market (this is as much as I can get out of my acquaintance). Can this equipment be found anywhere? I gave him a few numbers of telephone refurbishers, but I haven't heard back from him whether he was successful. Have these autodialers been legislated or AT&T-strongarmed out of existence? Has there been industry pressure to make present autodialing phones "slow enough?" Paul W. Schleck Ybbat (DRBBS) 8.9 v. 3.12 r.5 [1:285/27@fidonet] Neb. Inns of Court 402/593-1192 (1:285/27.0)