osd@rabbit.UUCP (06/09/83)
How about this one... AT&T announces a telephone number you can call this Monday that will allow you to hear a slowed down tape recording of the signal sent by Pioneer 10. You'll pay $0.50 for one minute of listening to wonderful beeps from near the edge of the Solar System. This is not a joke. Call this Monday June 13. The number is 900-410-4111. You'll never forget it!??!
REM%MIT-MC@sri-unix.UUCP (06/19/83)
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM @ MIT-MC> You don't have the worst of it. KPIX Channel 5 in San Francisco advertised that 900 phone as toll-free. I wonder how many people will call it thinking it'f free (not to mention thining it would be interesting), get disgusted with the phone charge, complain to Ma Bell, get no satisfaction, and then blame it on NASA instead of stupid KPIX with their decrepit news reporting?