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From: Ahem A Rivets Shot
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 08:32

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On Sun, 1 Apr 2018 10:30:48 -0700 (PDT)
roger...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 27, 2018 at 1:52:45 AM UTC-7, Quadibloc wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> When I was in high school ca. 1980, I saw a note in the local paper that
> Nine Mile Canyon was finally being converted to rotary dial. This was in
> rural Utah.

	Wow I'm surprised they didn't skip pulse and go straight to tone
only.

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