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Article #621623Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:56
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 04:56
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On 3/27/2018 3:04 PM, Roger Blake wrote: > On 2018-03-27, Christian Corti <u...@reply.to> wrote: >> In _1954_ ? Are you serious? How backward was the US at that time? >> Just wondering... > > Rural areas can take a while to catch up. In early 1980s New Hampshire > I had to have a party line for a while. > In the United States, phones in the 1980's ram the gamut from touch-tone "full featured" phones to phones that had no way to dial. You pick up the receiver and the operator said "number please"! -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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