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Article #621604Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Jorgen Grahn
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:48
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 08:48
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On Mon, 2018-04-02, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > 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. Incidentally, the same explanation I got for why I don't get IPv6 at home: old equipment being reused and pushed closer to the customer. (That, and what more and more seems like indifference from my government and the people owning the infrastructure.) /Jorgen -- // Jorgen Grahn <grahn@ Oo o. . . \X/ snipabacken.se> O o .
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