Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone

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From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 05:41

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On 3/28/2018 10:36 AM, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
> 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!
> 

PA:  "Dr. Howard... Dr. Fine...  Dr. Howard...
       Dr. Howard... Dr. Fine...  Dr. Howard..."

-- 
numerist at aquaporin4 dot com

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From: Charles Richmond <nume...@aquaporin4.com>
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Subject: Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
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