On This Day In Telephone History January 11TH 1952 – AT&T announced trial of aluminum conductor cable when the National Production Authority granted requests to free aluminum for this purpose. Copper was on short allowance because of military needs. The copper shortage cleared up during the year.

On This Day In Telephone History January 10TH 1967

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On This Day In Telephone History January 10TH 1967 RCA and Western Electric announced the joint development of a computerized type setting system that automatically adjusts line spacing eliminating hyphens. The system, called Autoscript, uses an RCA Spectra 70/25 computer and a phototypesetter to produce a continuous flow of Bell System technical documents.