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A large hacker camp such as EMF 2024 always brings unexpected delights, and one of those could be found in the Null Sector cyberpunk zone: a fully functional Strowger mechanical telephone exchange.

IT is not very generally known that the engineers of the British Post Office have begun to change the telephone system of London into a fully automatic one. The task is enormous and it will be fifteen ...