Actually, it was created by Bell Labs as a prop for the film, "The President's Analyst." When they found out that the film did not present the phone company in a particularly favorable light, and thus realized that the prop was not going to do them much good as a product placement item, they went out of their way to endow it with as much confusion, awkwardness, and outright evil as humanly possible. (At least, as "humanly" possible for a phone company, that is.)
No, not at all; it is yet another rumor that "The President's Analyst" is based on fiction. It is actually a suppressed *documentary* and James Coburn's "acting" career is merely a transparent cover.
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