Feb 1962--Bell Dataphone ad

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Bell Telephone had ads for data transmission telephones in the
Computers & Automation magazine. The first units had various shapes,
but the unit pictured in this ad looked to be the dataphone (a.k.a.
Dataset) widely used in the 1960s and 1970s.

The text of the ad reads roughtly:

How to telephone a payroll

You can send an entire company payroll, a day's volume of
orders, stacks of waybills, inventories-almost any kind or
amount of business data-by telephone today.

You simply use Bell System DATA·PHONE service.

This new service takes machine data from punched cards
or tapes and sends it over telephone lines in a special tone
language. At the other end, the data is received in exactly its
originaI form.

Transmission is super-fast. For example: payroll data for
thousands of employees can be sent in minutes. And the DATAPHONE
call costs no more than a regular telephone call.

Think-how DATA.PHONE service could speed up your
data handling, how it could cut your costs and improve your
service to customers. Then reach for your phone. Call your Bell
Telephone Business Office-and one of our Communications
Consultants will bring you the complete DATA.PHONE story.

BELL TELEPHONE SYSTEM

to see entire ad, see pg 3 of
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/computersAndAutomation/196202.pdf