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title: "Computer-Curious Clog Hotline"
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excerpt: "Questions about the TS1000 backed up long-distance phone lines in Middlebury. When the Timex Computer Corporation began to sell the TS1000 in July and then set up a toll-free number in September to handle consumer questions about it, the company office in Middlebury did not anticipate receiving up to 50,000 calls a week."
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# Computer-Curious Clog Hotline

Questions about the TS1000 backed up long-distance phone lines in Middlebury. When the Timex Computer Corporation began to sell the TS1000 in July and then set up a toll-free number in September to handle consumer questions about it, the company office in Middlebury did not anticipate receiving up to 50,000 calls a week.