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Article #621596Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Gareths Downstairs Computer
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:59
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 15:59
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On 27/03/2018 16:24, Jorgen Grahn wrote: > On Tue, 2018-03-27, Quadibloc wrote: >> On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 2:20:02 AM UTC-6, Christian Corti wrote: >> >>> In _1954_ ? Are you serious? How backward was the US at that time? >>> Just wondering... >> >> While it is true that automated telephone exchanges were introduced in the 1920s, >> I'm sure that they started in the major cities. That rural areas still used >> operator-assisted calling for local calls up until the 1950s in some cases does >> not strike me as too unbelievable. > > Yes. Mom described to me how that worked in rural Sweden, around 1950: > who ran the village exchange, which hops my grandfather had to specify > to reach his siblings two parishes away, and so on. > > /Jorgen > LLechryd, Ceredigion, in Darkest Wales, was a manual exchange well into the 1960s; we had a great aunt whom we phoned.
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