Word: dial
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Once you've got all the necessary accessories, just dial up Harvard's port selector at 495-9280. This number will work for either 1200 or 300 baud modems. Next you need to type in what class computer you want. If you have not set up a low-priority account, turn off your computer, go down to the Science Center basement and ask on of the terminal watchers to create a Class 4 low-pri account for you. They will assign you a logname and password. That accomplished, you're ready to telecompute away...
...Fourteen karat GOLD WATCH with a 350th dial...
...says Geller. "The rate is from $32 down." Most of his operating costs are covered by $10 and $20 contributions, which he acknowledges individually on the air ("My thanks today to Beverly, to Topsfield, to Rockport . . . And now let's get back to the music"). Fishermen flipping the dial pause to marvel at a plea for contributions by a local voice, so familiar and yet so strange; they often stay on to sample Mozart or Bach. Guy Wonson, a stonemason, started listening in 1968. He got a kick out of the commercials at first, but the music gradually insinuated itself...
...Republic Telecom of Minnesota, which has about 35,000 customers and enjoyed 1985 revenues of $100 million. But a considerable number of the retailers are much smaller operations. What most of them shared was a handicap: to make a long-distance call on their services, customers have had to dial as many as 24 digits on their phones. AT& T alone retained command of the 1-plus-area-code system...
...return them. Depending on the services contending in any area, customers may have been faced with more than a dozen carrier names on some ballots. As equipment capable of handling such functions was installed at local telephone offices, retailers in each area would be given equal access to the dial-1 system -- hence the balloting's informal name. By the Sept. 1 deadline, 71% of all eligible U.S. telephone customers will have been polled; the 20 million to 30 million customers served by U.S. companies other than the Baby Bells are not allowed to vote in this election. They face...