Re: [Melb] 27% of ticket machine out of order

[spammers-will-die@austux.net (Jeremy Lunn)]

In article <461V6.123797$ff.923662@news-server.bigpond.net.au>,
Daniel Bowen wrote:
> IMHO, the new Telstra payphones are a triumph of style over substance. The
> much hyped "Smart" phone cards that make the phones work don't actually
> achieve anything that the older phone cards did - in fact they do less - the
> old ones used to be programmable to only ring a certain number, or to (by
> default) automatically call a certain number. They also gave you an
> indication (without putting the card into a phone) of how much money you had
> left. The new ones don't do this, and they also don't have the recharge
> facility they were originally meant to have.

They may also be more vandal proof if you didn't have to feed the card
into the machine (that is right? I wouldn't know because I don't use
payphones often).  The coin mechanism in the new ones are definitly
dodgy.

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