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Re:Installing a payphone in my house by Animats on Friday June 03, 2022 @02:04AM (#31604794)
Automatic switching came decades before automated billing. See "Operator Assisted Toll Dialing" (1949).[1] The operators are tone-dialing calls, but the billing system is entirely paper based.

Billing automation came in the 1960s, but didn't involve computers yet. Special purpose hardware, paper tape, and punched cards were involved.

[1] https://vimeo.com/390769230

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