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Article #621624Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:36
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2018 15:36
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On 2018-03-28, Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com> wrote:
> 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"!
PA: Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone. Captain Clarence Oveur,
white courtesy phone.
[Oveur picks up the red phone.]
PA: No, the white phone.
PA: Captain Oveur, white courtesy phone. Captain Clarence Oveur,
white courtesy phone.
Oveur: I GOT IT!
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