mike@attunix.att.com (Michael Rubin) (06/26/90)
Several years ago I heard about a PBX system in which every phone had a magnetic stripe reader that would read your employee badge. Whenever you walked into a room you would swipe your badge through the phone and your calls would be forwarded there. You could also swipe your badge through the phone and push an "I'm busy" button which would presumably forward your calls to the answering machine. Was this system ever produced and used, by whom, and does it work? Are there any privacy problems, e.g. management surreptitiously using it to time lunch breaks? Mike Rubin <mike@attunix.att.com>