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Over 30 years ago, one of my boss's best friends was THE email administrator of SW Bell, that became AT&T after the Bells reformed into AT&T after the breakup.
Anyway, way back then he had a credit card sized gizmo that had random numbers showing up all the time. If he needed to log in, he had to punch in the numbers from that gizmo to access the network. They changed constantly, so he had like a minute before the next set of number appeared. It was cool tech but likely expensive.
He was also in charge of all the SW Bell billing department. He gave me a tour of the office were every single paper bill was printed. If you remember the olden days of receiving a paper bill that listed every single long distance call, and the amount charged for the call on certain width paper, it came from that office in downtown OKC. The printer was astonishing. It took a roll of paper 6 feet tall loaded on a printer, and it moved through at astonishing speed, and hurled the paper into the air in a arch across the room, into a catcher box to be folded and inserted into the envelopes.
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Glen
49 Year member of the Porsche Club of America
1985 911 Carrera; 2017 Macan
1986 El Camino with Fuel Injected 350 Crate Engine
My Motto: I will never be too old to have a happy childhood!
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