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* * * * RADIO SCHLOCK HELPS THE FEDS * * * ** written by: W.R. Greer brought to you by: /P /A /P a prime anarchist production. NEW YORK–Joel C. Guskin, a telephone products buyer for the Tandy Corp. in Fort Worth, asked to go off the record. Asked what could be sensitive about a new attachment for the telephone, Guskin whispered, "It involves the government." Although he will not tell the whole story, Guskin said government agencies have been buying Tandy's new Duofone CPA-1000, a computerized phone accountant, and using it in surveillance. Doesnt the government have more sophistocated equipment for keeping track of someone's telephone calls? Of course, Mr. Guskin said, but if the object of scrutiny finds and destroys the call recorder, it is less expensive to replace the CPA-1000, which costs $99.95, than the $500 to $5000 models such agencies usually use. The CPA-1000, which is as big as an adding machine, keeps track of local and long distance calls made and received. It uses a computer chip and prints on a tape the time and date of the call, the number of the call, and the call's duration. It cannot provide the telephone number of your callers. For incoming calls, the CPA-1000 records the number of rings before pickup, the time and date of the call and the duration. At the end of the day, it prints out the number of incoming calls and the number of outgoing local and long distance calls. Long distance telephone companies have acknowleged billing some customers twice for the same call or for calls not answered. The CPA-1000 could help protect against such erroneouscharges and could also help keep track of monthly phone bills.whaddyathinkofthat? p r i m e