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that appears

on the device)

would make

great prop in a

sci -fi movie.

Its potential,

however,

is a great deal

more practical.

Encoding numbers

is done

on the unit's

numerical

keypad,

with three additional

buttons (used

in conjunction

with

the

pound sign)

used in entering

the numerical

data. Each telephone

number is assigned

memo number

(telephone

numbers

one

through 40). So apart

from screening

func-

tions, the

user can call

up a memorized

telephone

number by using

the

single- or

double

-digit memo

number.

In use, the

unit allows

the telephone

which it is connected

to accept only

calls

from numbers

entered

into the Telescreen

II's memory. Callers,

addition to

the

user's number,

must dial an

additional

four

digits to

ring through.

The

Telescreen I1

is programmed

to ac-

cept the final

four digits

of any of

the

numbers in

its memory as

an access

code.

But that's merely

a convention,

as the

call

can come

from any phone,

long

the

caller knows

to punch

in the four

-digit

code,

presumably

from his

or her tele-

phone

number.

On the Telescreen

end

of the call,

the

unit delays the phone's

ring,

and then dis-

plays the encoded

telephore

number as the

instrument

rings. Among

other presumed

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advantages,

that allows

the

Telescreen

shielded user

to answer

the call

knowing

who's on the other

end.

Calling

a Telescreen-

equipped

phone

involves

dialing

the number,

hearing

two

rings

and then

quickly

dialing

the four

digit

access code.

In GIZMO's

brief

use of

the device, there

were several possible

out-

comes to

that sequence.

When

at-

tempted

to call using

outmoded rotary

instrument,

ring -through

was hit and miss.

Sometimes

we made it and

sometimes

not.

"Line

drop" is the

communications

indus-

try nomenclature

for

the most

frequent re-

sult using

the rotary phone.

With more

modern

equipment,

contact

was un-

failingly

made.

However,

when we turned

on the an-

swering half

of our phone

/answering ma-

chine

unit, callers

did

not receive

the

outgoing

message and

were instead dis-

connected.

The circuitry

in those

units ap-

parently

defeats the

Telescreen

II's

programming.

A telephone-

answering

de-

vice

of the

non -combo

variety

supposedly

can

be used in tandem

with

the

unit.

Clearly,

the Telescreen

II is

not a tele-

phone add -on

designed to

sweep the

mass

market (though

we wouldn't be surprised

it eventually

shows up

on one of the

cable -TV

shopping channels).

Instead,

is a

rather specific electronic

tool

for

variety of individual

situations. At first.

beyond escaping

telephone

solicitors

maybe bill collectors,

the unit might

not

appear

to have many applications.

But consumer imagination

being

what it

is, uses

probably abound, legitimate

and

otherwise. As a

way of controlling incom-

ing calls

during a specific time period

(say

during two

hours a day a firm devotes

sales reports), the Telescreen

could prove

useful.

organizer of incoming

calls

(with a common code

shared by

various

persons),

the unit's LCD display

could be

used to

organize or classify incoming

calls

for the Telescreen user.

If there's anything

more irritating

than

an electronic

product that doesn't

work.

it's one that seems

to work randomly. That

callers using rotary-dial

phones might

not

be able

to get through to a

Telescreen -

equipped

number

seems

limitation to its

use. The user

the

screening device

might

select

who

can call, but

wouldn't

seem to have much control

over

what

kind

of telephone is used by the

caller. Security

and privacy buffs,

however, might find that

device to be exactly

what they've always

wanted.

still think it

will

eventually

turn up on the movie

screen as a prop

or on

the

TV screen as a

sale item.

Three

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reporters

and the

industry

keep telling us,

are back. After

spectacular rise and an equally

breathtak-

ing

fall, the

video

-game

industry has

picked

itself up and tended to

its

wounds,

and the

result is that once

again the sales

curve

is heading

upward instead of over

the

cliff.

Video games

hit a peak

in 1982

-1983,

racking

up total

sales, according

to figures

supplied by

Nintendo

of America,

Inc.,

three billion

dollars.

1985 -1986,

dol-

lar -sales

figures plummeted

to $100

mil-

lion. For

1988, the

company,

which claims

70 percent

of the

current

market, projects

industry-wide

sales

$1.9

billion.

Frankly,

we missed

the

video -game

ma-

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