XPost: rec.audio.pro, comp.dsp   
   From: gah@ugcs.caltech.edu   
      
   In comp.dsp Bill Graham  wrote:   
   (snip)   
      
   > If we didn't have the computers, we wouldn't have the telephone service. I   
   > read way back in the 80's that if it weren't for the digit dialing system,   
   > every woman in the US between the ages of 18 and 80 would have to work for   
   > the telephone company.   
      
   Much of the telephone switching system previously worked without   
   computers, at least not what we call computers today.  Stepper   
   relays were pretty important, and not really computers.   
      
   They were probably used for billing pretty early, though.   
      
   -- glen   
      
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