IS A CUSTOMER ENTITLED TO CREDIT
• —-<s> —--■ .. ■ ■ MACHINE DECIDES AUTOMATICALLY A LOXDOS EXPEIILUEXT. TICKING SIGNIFIES CREDIT. (Received 9.20 a.m.) LONDON, .November 20. The Daily Mail states that "tick 'or no tick" will liCerally be hte answer .of a machine, with which a leading Lcndon department store is experimenting. It will decide automatically whether a customer is entitled to credit. The customer operates a key, invisible and inaudible to the cus.tomer, spelling out the customer's name and tlv e cost )Qt the intended purchase. If she hears an immediate mechanical tick transmitted from the apparatus' nerve centre in the office she is aware that "tick" in a monetary sense, can be extended. ' If no tick comes from the office' there is no "tick" to the customer. —Australian Press Association, Sun Service.
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 84, 20 November 1928, Page 6
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