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Article #621597Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:45
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 17:45
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On 2018-03-27, Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> 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. The whole world isn't New York, however much it wants to think so. I grew up just outside Vancouver and remember the transition from operators to dial phones sometime prior to 1960 - at which time we moved out to the sticks and went back to operators for a while. I remember reading about the last cord board in B.C. (out in a remote community) being retired sometime in the 1970s. -- /~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs) \ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way. X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855. / \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
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