I distinctly remember (few years after...) when I tried to physically modif=
y phone cards to have free calls. First with optical cards and then chip ca=
rds. In those days my biggest dream was a chip card reader.

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> Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 01:46:40 +0200
> Subject: Re: [OT] What took them so long?
> From: caroper@gmail.com
> To: piclist@mit.edu
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> Slightly off topic but I recall, also about 35 years ago, whilst doing
> national service in a long forgotten African country, the local Telecom
> Technician got so sick of having to get "long Tikkies" (the local name fo=
r
> a coin attached to a thread) outh of the mechanical coin reader that he
> disabled the coin box entirely and informed me that the men could use the
> public phone outside the base for free as long as they didn't abuse it or
> tell his superiors. From that day on he got free drinks in our mess
> whenever he visited.
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