Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone

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From: Mike Spencer
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 19:35

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Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> writes:

> 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.

Same in rural Nova Scotia.  Party line in my little hamlet of 4 houses
until mid-80s.  I got my first computer, an already obsolete Osborne 1,
in '87 and was happy that we'd very recently been upgraded to a
private line so I could visit a BBS and, a  couple of years later,
dialup to an academic Unix host.

-- 
Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada

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From: Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere>
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Subject: Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
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