And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Had a few of those babies. Labeled: "Bell System Property-not for sale". Their mounting cord was hard-wired to a baseboard connector block + were 1 party of a 4-party line in the 1950s.
500-58 phone, installed a lot of those in my time. I remember when they showed us the new mounting cord for the base, it clicked into the new wall jack. "Wow! What will they think of next?".
Ha! I remember ‘tap dialing’ the locked rotary phone used in my high school’s “computer terminal” (an ASR 33 Teletype). I mean, I had a game I needed to finish writing - and I wasn’t going to let the stupid little lock gizmo the went in the #1 finger hole stop me! (It took locking the supply closet the terminal was in to do that... ;-) And yes, I’m that old. :-)
Cool, but should have made it black.
ReplyDeleteHad a few of those babies. Labeled: "Bell System Property-not for sale". Their mounting cord was hard-wired to a baseboard connector block + were 1 party of a 4-party line in the 1950s.
ReplyDelete500-58 phone, installed a lot of those in my time. I remember when they showed us the new mounting cord for the base, it clicked into the new wall jack. "Wow! What will they think of next?".
ReplyDeleteDoes pulse dialing still work?
ReplyDeleteI remember tap dialing pay phones to save a dime.
Ha! I remember ‘tap dialing’ the locked rotary phone used in my high school’s “computer terminal” (an ASR 33 Teletype). I mean, I had a game I needed to finish writing - and I wasn’t going to let the stupid little lock gizmo the went in the #1 finger hole stop me! (It took locking the supply closet the terminal was in to do that... ;-)
DeleteAnd yes, I’m that old. :-)
We used to tap dial the locked rotary phone in the back room of our high school journalism teacher's classroom.
Delete