From: George A. Gleason <gg@well.sf.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 93 03:31:52 PDT
To: hughes@soda.berkeley.edu
Subject: Re:  WB: public kiosks
Message-ID: <199304041031.AA11760@well.sf.ca.us>
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Re public kiosks; recall that Community Memory started the idea of
coin-operated kiosks years ago; and presumably still has terminals located
around town.  The technology is quite simple apparently.  Could be
genralised pretty easily.  The terminals are connected to their servers via
off-premise extension circuits, which allow keeping the lines open fulltime
at no per-minute charge.  Then you drop coins in order to respond to stuff.
This of course requires a server in evrey local exchange area where you want
terminals, but that should be no problem in most places.

-gg