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Article #621621Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Mike Spencer
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:23
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2018 18:23
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Christian Corti <u...@reply.to> writes: > hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > >> The Bell System and the Independents prepared a number of >> customer education films on how to dial. Back in old days, >> people used to manual operator service had to learn how >> to use a telephone dial. > > In _1954_ ? Are you serious? How backward was the US at that time? > Just wondering... In 1953, I moved from rural New Hampshire to urban Massachusetts. The NH town (pop. ca 1000) had party lines, crank phones and a plug board operator up near the high school. The Mass. city had dial phones. I didn't need to see an educational film to learn how to use the phone, though. -- Mike Spencer Nova Scotia, Canada
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