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Post# 1151745 6/19/2022 at 18:24 (675 days old) by Ultramatic  (New York City) |
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All about vintage telephones up to 1989. Advertisements, humor, history, collections, equipment, restoration/repair, technical questions, resources or just plain memories, it's all here. While emphasis is placed on American telephones, vintage telephones from around the world are also most welcomed.
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Post# 1151747 , Reply# 1 6/19/2022 at 18:25 (675 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1928 | ||
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Post# 1151749 , Reply# 2 6/19/2022 at 18:27 (675 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1956 | ||
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Post# 1151750 , Reply# 3 6/19/2022 at 18:28 (675 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1976 | ||
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Post# 1151752 , Reply# 4 6/19/2022 at 18:30 (675 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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General Telephone System 1957 | ||
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Post# 1151753 , Reply# 5 6/19/2022 at 18:30 (675 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Re: Reply #1
Coast to Coast long distance calls for only $9.00! Holy mackerel, in 1927 the average worker probably only made about $35.00 a week, $9.00 was more than a days wages!
My how times have changed when today you can talk on the phone coast to coast for almost free. Back then to make a coast to coast call for $9.00 it would have had be to a life or death emergency or you’d had to have been VERY well off. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1151754 , Reply# 6 6/19/2022 at 18:31 (675 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1961 | ||
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Post# 1154459 , Reply# 8 7/16/2022 at 18:32 (648 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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American Telephone and Telegraph 1912 | ||
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Post# 1154460 , Reply# 9 7/16/2022 at 18:33 (648 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1955 | ||
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Post# 1154461 , Reply# 10 7/16/2022 at 18:34 (648 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1961 | ||
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Post# 1154462 , Reply# 11 7/16/2022 at 18:35 (648 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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GTE 1979 | ||
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Post# 1154463 , Reply# 12 7/16/2022 at 18:36 (648 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1961 | ||
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Post# 1154913 , Reply# 13 7/21/2022 at 19:51 (643 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Adding a new feature: News | ||
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Post# 1154916 , Reply# 14 7/21/2022 at 20:28 (643 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Post# 1160825 , Reply# 15 10/1/2022 at 17:36 (571 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1965 | ||
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Post# 1160826 , Reply# 16 10/1/2022 at 17:37 (571 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1979 | ||
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Post# 1160827 , Reply# 17 10/1/2022 at 17:39 (571 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Southwestern Bell Telephone Company 1948 | ||
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Post# 1160828 , Reply# 18 10/1/2022 at 17:40 (571 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1909 | ||
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Post# 1160829 , Reply# 19 10/1/2022 at 17:41 (571 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Illinois Bell 1984 | ||
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Post# 1169628 , Reply# 20 1/15/2023 at 20:43 (465 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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AT&T 1994 | ||
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Post# 1169629 , Reply# 21 1/15/2023 at 20:45 (465 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Ericofon 1960 | ||
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Post# 1169630 , Reply# 22 1/15/2023 at 20:47 (465 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1955 | ||
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Post# 1169631 , Reply# 23 1/15/2023 at 20:49 (465 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Radio Shack 1979 | ||
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Post# 1169711 , Reply# 24 1/16/2023 at 13:23 (464 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Re:#22
I love the wording of this ad! It really hits the nail on the head about how people thought about their telephones then. For many having an extension phone was a luxury! Each extra phone cost extra money every month too. And a color phone cost extra as well, also a coiled handset cord was and additional monthly fee too.
So for the “breadwinner” to approve these extra expenditures was a sign of a well off family. The “little women” didn’t have carte blanc in most homes to just order up an extension phone, she needed to get buy in from hubby. That was life in the 50’s. The base monthly charge for having a telephone service included ONLY 1 Black desk set with a straight handset cord (which would soon become a tangled mess with regular use). When I got my first telephone in ‘70 the charge was $10 per mo. for a two party line and one black phone. Eddie | ||
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Radio Shack 1979 I remember staring at my Radio Shack catalog and LUSTING after that damn cordless phone... lol | ||
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Post# 1171643 , Reply# 26 2/8/2023 at 18:56 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1964 | ||
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Post# 1171644 , Reply# 27 2/8/2023 at 18:57 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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The Bell Phone Center 1982 | ||
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Post# 1171645 , Reply# 28 2/8/2023 at 18:59 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1961 | ||
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Post# 1171646 , Reply# 29 2/8/2023 at 19:00 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Panasonic 1984 | ||
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Post# 1171647 , Reply# 30 2/8/2023 at 19:01 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1962 | ||
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Post# 1171648 , Reply# 31 2/8/2023 at 19:03 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1911 | ||
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Post# 1171649 , Reply# 32 2/8/2023 at 19:04 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1965 | ||
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Post# 1171650 , Reply# 33 2/8/2023 at 19:06 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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F.W. Dodge Corporation 1951 | ||
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Post# 1171651 , Reply# 34 2/8/2023 at 19:08 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1951 | ||
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Post# 1171652 , Reply# 35 2/8/2023 at 19:09 (441 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1938 | ||
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Post# 1171726 , Reply# 36 2/9/2023 at 21:32 (440 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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#35...aah network effects! Working on the standards side of telephony for the last 25 or so years it's interesting to see what hath Alexander Graham Bell wrought. The Bell System driving things was one way to push technology forward (the independent companies weren't laggards, certainly, but were not quite as macro thinking as AT&T).
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Post# 1173325 , Reply# 37 2/27/2023 at 20:49 (422 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1910 | ||
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Post# 1173326 , Reply# 38 2/27/2023 at 20:51 (422 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell, The Telephone And How We Use It 1951 | ||
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Post# 1173327 , Reply# 39 2/27/2023 at 20:52 (422 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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General Telephone & Electronics 1961 | ||
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Post# 1173328 , Reply# 40 2/27/2023 at 20:54 (422 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1983 | ||
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Post# 1174135 , Reply# 41 3/8/2023 at 20:35 (413 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1979 | ||
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Post# 1174137 , Reply# 42 3/8/2023 at 20:37 (413 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1961 | ||
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Post# 1174138 , Reply# 43 3/8/2023 at 20:40 (413 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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AT&T 1968 | ||
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Post# 1174139 , Reply# 44 3/8/2023 at 20:44 (413 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Phone Center 1982 | ||
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Post# 1174140 , Reply# 45 3/8/2023 at 20:46 (413 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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The Bell System 1960 | ||
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Post# 1174143 , Reply# 46 3/8/2023 at 20:56 (413 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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#41 thru 45
My how the telephone has changed thru the past 60 years! I’ve never seen the Phone Thing for calculating LD charges and least expensive times to call. People now can’t conceive of having to think about the best time to call someone at a distance. Long distance calls used to be expensive. I live only 45 miles from my family home, but before VOIP and cell phones I used to pay 45 cents for the first 3 mins to call home and then about 12 cents for each additional min.
And #45’s advertisement for the handiness of an extension phone is something else we now take for granted. That used to cost about $5.00 more per mo. per extension, a luxury when min wage was $1.50 per hr. Thanks Louis, I always enjoy these threads. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1174165 , Reply# 47 3/9/2023 at 03:44 (413 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Post# 1174183 , Reply# 48 3/9/2023 at 14:09 (412 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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Sound level... | ||
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Post# 1174810 , Reply# 49 3/15/2023 at 15:08 (406 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1932 | ||
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Post# 1174811 , Reply# 50 3/15/2023 at 15:10 (406 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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AT&T 1988 | ||
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Post# 1174813 , Reply# 51 3/15/2023 at 15:12 (406 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1962 | ||
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Post# 1174814 , Reply# 52 3/15/2023 at 15:13 (406 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Telco 1969 | ||
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Post# 1174815 , Reply# 53 3/15/2023 at 15:15 (406 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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North Ericofon 1960 | ||
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Post# 1174928 , Reply# 54 3/16/2023 at 18:18 (405 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Press 1 for more anger: Americans are fed up with customer service
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Post# 1174936 , Reply# 55 3/16/2023 at 19:00 (405 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Press 1 for Anger!
You said it Louie! I’m so sick and tired for telephone trees, with press this or that and listening to endless crap before you can reach an agent. Then when you finally do get a live human being 9 times out of 10 they are in another country and English is their second language. This is meant as no disrespect for our foreign neighbors, but many times its very difficult to understand them and I really try my best to be patient and polite to them.
I’ve reached the point that many times when I encounter one of these endless telephone tree recordings I just start to press “0” over and over again until I finally get a live wire. It works pretty well most of the time. But whats worse that the Press 1 for anger lines is that now many companies want you to do an online “Chat” rather than speak with an agent. I say hell to the NO on this! Not once have any of these “chats” brought a resolution to the problem I’m calling about. Face it, most of corporate America couldn’t care less about customer service anymore. Back in the old days customer service agent jobs were jobs that people with no specialized education could fill and make a living at. Now these jobs have either gone overseas or to automation. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1175445 , Reply# 56 3/21/2023 at 16:07 (400 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1965 | ||
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Post# 1175446 , Reply# 57 3/21/2023 at 16:08 (400 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1961 | ||
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Post# 1175447 , Reply# 58 3/21/2023 at 16:10 (400 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1932 | ||
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Post# 1175448 , Reply# 59 3/21/2023 at 16:12 (400 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bates 1958 | ||
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Post# 1175449 , Reply# 60 3/21/2023 at 16:13 (400 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Code-A-Phone 1982 | ||
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Post# 1175527 , Reply# 63 3/21/2023 at 23:45 (400 days old) by hobbyapocalypse (Northeast Pennsylvania) |
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The Interphone ad
reminded me of what we used to do back around the 1970's. If we picked up one house phone and dialed a 3 number code (something like 3-1-1 but I forget what it was) and immediately put the receiver back on the hook, all the phones would ring with a different ring than usual. When the ringing stopped you knew someone picked up so you could pick up and talk to that person. It was a convenient way to call between the house and the garage for example.
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Post# 1178130 , Reply# 64 4/14/2023 at 16:00 (376 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1965 | ||
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Post# 1178131 , Reply# 65 4/14/2023 at 16:02 (376 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1912 | ||
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Post# 1178133 , Reply# 66 4/14/2023 at 16:03 (376 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Ericofon 1961 | ||
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Post# 1178134 , Reply# 67 4/14/2023 at 16:04 (376 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Grandcom 1973 | ||
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Post# 1178140 , Reply# 68 4/14/2023 at 16:44 (376 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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That Ericofon--about 20 years ago I toured the Telecom museum in Stockholm. Very interesting museum. TBH Ericsson had roughly the same capabilities over the years as AT&T (they just didn't actually operate the networks---in most countries that was nationalized to the Post Office (PTT---Post Telephone Telegraph). US and Canada were similar in that they were privatized (there are a few municipal phone companies; SaskTel is provincially owned) but nowhere else was there the dual (private, either AT&T or independent) system that prevailed in North America.
It's why so many of our systems work here in the US the way they do---that structure caused things to become "fixed" over the years. For a lot of concepts, the rest of the world "way of doing things" is/was perfectly valid within their paradigm, but switching paradigms breaks things! | ||
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Post# 1178635 , Reply# 69 4/20/2023 at 18:20 (370 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1957 | ||
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Post# 1178636 , Reply# 70 4/20/2023 at 18:21 (370 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1927 | ||
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Post# 1178637 , Reply# 71 4/20/2023 at 18:22 (370 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1960 | ||
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Post# 1178638 , Reply# 72 4/20/2023 at 18:24 (370 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1964 | ||
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Post# 1178640 , Reply# 73 4/20/2023 at 18:27 (370 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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AT&T 1988 | ||
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Post# 1179878 , Reply# 74 5/5/2023 at 01:24 (356 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1961 | ||
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Post# 1179879 , Reply# 75 5/5/2023 at 01:25 (356 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1956 | ||
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Post# 1179880 , Reply# 76 5/5/2023 at 01:28 (356 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1952 | ||
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Post# 1179881 , Reply# 77 5/5/2023 at 01:29 (356 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1962 | ||
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Post# 1179882 , Reply# 78 5/5/2023 at 01:32 (356 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1962 | ||
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Post# 1180780 , Reply# 79 5/16/2023 at 20:13 (344 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1957 | ||
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Post# 1180781 , Reply# 80 5/16/2023 at 20:15 (344 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1959 | ||
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Post# 1180782 , Reply# 81 5/16/2023 at 20:16 (344 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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North Ericofon 1960 | ||
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Post# 1180783 , Reply# 82 5/16/2023 at 20:17 (344 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1966 | ||
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Post# 1180784 , Reply# 83 5/16/2023 at 20:19 (344 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell System 1929 | ||
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Post# 1187766 , Reply# 84 8/16/2023 at 17:26 (252 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1957 | ||
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Post# 1187767 , Reply# 85 8/16/2023 at 17:29 (252 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1950 | ||
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Post# 1187768 , Reply# 86 8/16/2023 at 17:30 (252 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Western Electric 1962 | ||
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Post# 1187769 , Reply# 87 8/16/2023 at 17:32 (252 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1957 | ||
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Post# 1187795 , Reply# 88 8/16/2023 at 20:03 (252 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Just watched an interesting documentary on the rise and fall of Nokia. I remember early in my career in cellular (1992-5 ish) Nokia were the slightly weird slightly off-brand phones (there were weirder, certainly, but not the normal Motorola of the day) which we used when we couldn't get Motorola. (The weirdest were a shipment of Mitsubishi bagphones we got when Motorola couldn't fulfill their order due to a problem with the...bags).
Found out from the documentary the history of the NMT (Nordic Mobile Telephone) standard which was the early precursor of GSM (and was how Nokia got it's start). It extended my understanding of the cooperation within Europe was able to get the EU interoperability under a different path than we had in North America. CLICK HERE TO GO TO jamiel's LINK | ||
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Post# 1189865 , Reply# 89 9/12/2023 at 16:30 (225 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1959 | ||
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Post# 1189866 , Reply# 90 9/12/2023 at 16:31 (225 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1963 | ||
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Post# 1189873 , Reply# 91 9/12/2023 at 18:25 (225 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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General Telephone & Electronics 1961 | ||
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Post# 1189874 , Reply# 92 9/12/2023 at 18:27 (225 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone System 1961 | ||
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Post# 1189875 , Reply# 93 9/12/2023 at 18:29 (225 days old) by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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Bell Telephone 1983 | ||
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Post# 1189878 , Reply# 94 9/12/2023 at 18:42 (225 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Re:#92
Remember when there used to be really nice, spacious telephone booths with a comfortable seat and some even had fans to keep the booth from being stuffy? These “Deluxe” phone booths were usually located in office building lobby's, hotels, better restaurants, airports, bars and telephone company office buildings.
When I first left home at 19 in ‘70 I couldn’t afford a telephone of my own for the first year. I used to call home every week from the pay phone located outside the Pacific Telephone building on Liberty St. in Petaluma, Calif. They had two nice quiet booths in front of the building with seats, a fan and doors that closed tightly for privacy and quiet. The call home used to cost 45 cents for 3 mins., and this was a call that was only 45 miles away. We’ve become spoiled these days when almost every call is toll free with VOIP or cell phones. Back in the old days long distance calls cost plenty! When I was an Operator for PT&T in the mid 70’s these pay phone calls used to keep operators VERY busy at our cord switchboards. Now phone booths and pay phones are as scarce as hens teeth. Eddie | ||
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Post# 1198496 , Reply# 96 2/3/2024 at 12:43 by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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FCC Seeks to Make AI Robocalls IllegalThe agency worries AI-powered voice cloning could supercharge phone scams and misinformation.
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Post# 1198499 , Reply# 97 2/3/2024 at 13:04 by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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AT&T Request that CPUC Allow Elimination of Landlines
Last night on the news there was a story about AT&T’s request to the CPUC that they be released from the obligation to provide landline service in California.
This is a terrible blow for anyone living in the many rural areas of California that don’t have any cell phone service. In Sonoma Co. where I grew up on the Northern Coast there are many areas that are dead zones for cell phone service. The home that I grew up in doesn’t receive a reliable signal for cell phone service. As far as I know there is no cable TV service where I grew up and I suspect that most of the areas affected by this proposed change are also without cable TV service, so VOIP isn’t going to be an option either. Just what are these folks supposed to do in an emergency? As far as AT&Tis concerned they can eat excrement and die. And you can bet your bottom dollar that just like every other request that the CPUC receives from AT&T or any other utility company this is already a done deal before they even have a hearing or vote about the request. When I worked for PT&T in the mid 70’s the customer was king, not anymore. Eddie CLICK HERE TO GO TO ea56's LINK | ||
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Post# 1199090 , Reply# 99 2/11/2024 at 20:40 by Ultramatic (New York City) |
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