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Hard to tell, but if I had to guess from the description alone, I would say it was the mechanical or electromechanical equivalent to a 'modern' speed dialer. You know, one of those old fashioned boxes you plugged into the phone line next to the phone, with lots of buttons having programmable phone numbers stored on each one, for speed dial.
During communism, it was probably considered a bourgeois capitalist extravagance.
It would be neat to see one of those things, it's probably very mechanically complex. It would probably have to be like multiple programmable rotary dials in one device, with the ability to pause between each number dialed. Probably looks like a mechanical adding machine inside.
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