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I used to like telephony

By Dan Pitt | Published: November 30, 2009
The old days I started disassembling phones as a boy, which was a bit risky since only AT&T owned the instrument and you could not go to the store and buy a replacement if you broke it. There was no such thing as spare phones for experimenters. I worked on speech compression in graduate school, [...]
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