Thursday, February 20, 2020

The Classic



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  1. Cool, but should have made it black.

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  2. 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.

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  3. 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?".

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  4. Does pulse dialing still work?

    I remember tap dialing pay phones to save a dime.

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    1. 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. :-)

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    2. We used to tap dial the locked rotary phone in the back room of our high school journalism teacher's classroom.

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