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Article #621601Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:36
Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2018 16:36
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On 2018-04-02, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: > 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. I think a lot of small exchanges updated to equipment being replaced in larger ones to save the expense of purchasing new gear. -- /~\ 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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