Don't see a lot around here. Certainly not like a decade or so ago. I had mine set up for portability so I could move it from vehicle to vehicle but only used it when traveling. My cousins around the corner had a base station set up at home to keep up with my uncle when he was OTR. Even fewer Ham operators.
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Don't see a lot around here. Certainly not like a decade or so ago. I had mine set up for portability so I could move it from vehicle to vehicle but only used it when traveling. My cousins around the corner had a base station set up at home to keep up with my uncle when he was OTR. Even fewer Ham operators.
JohnHenry
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Sounds like you understand tip and ring, Mr. C.
JohnHenry
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Don't fergit yer dog boxes!
:rofl Busted! And that's funny 'cause I did cut my teeth in the dawn of telecommunications (Bell 103 modems - affectionately referred to as "the cricket"), or as we referred to it as TP - teleprocessing. Punch down data blocks, linesman handsets and on and on. Had a guy I worked with who I called Tip and Ring. Big ol' red headed boy. That ain't you is it?
grisby
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Next thing you know we will have to teach these kids SF and E/M signalling!!!!
My expertise was in special ckts and then T-CXR then Sonet!!!!!! Now you pay to have the priveledge of dropped calls and loss of signal via your portable cell!!!!!!
We used to call the cell phones at work "the electronic dog leash!!
Anyway I am dating myself so don't forget blue, orange, green, brown, slate.
Have a good one!!
My expertise was in special ckts and then T-CXR then Sonet!!!!!! Now you pay to have the priveledge of dropped calls and loss of signal via your portable cell!!!!!!
We used to call the cell phones at work "the electronic dog leash!!
Anyway I am dating myself so don't forget blue, orange, green, brown, slate.
Have a good one!!
I'll one-up-ya...we wore pagers. Our designated SWB (Southwestern Bell) trouble center was called long-lines (IIRC). Our earliest international service, WUI was one provider, ran via TAC (trans-atlantic cable). Later we moved to satellite service and got to work out all the hardware timing issues associated that hardware. Ran modem/ckt testing with customer and turned over trouble ticket to service provider based on ckt error rate. And in data, we just had 2-pair (xmt-rcv). Later on for on-site customers we also ran the first version of LAN, which was a 3-wire campus network driven by T.I. 960 mini computers that had code entered in binary via a front panel full of switches.
JohnHenry
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I'll call and raise.
My first company car (those were the days!) had a black ROTARY DIAL telephone set mounted to the transmission hump, and a forty pound radio transceiver in the trunk.
grisby
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You must mean IMTS (improved mobile telephone service) Yep I remember that. My car phone would beep the horn and flash the lights to let you know you had a call if you were out of the car. I remember the first analog cell phone I got--it weighed about 8 pounds!!! Kids have it easy today with their little units that have 1/2 the power!!!!!
Started in 1973 in the teletype room NOW did that one up you guys!!!!!!!!
Yep, remember the early pagers, first the beepers, then the digitals then the state of the art voice announcements ( all electronic dog leashes) if they went off you had to look for a coin box ( for you young'ins that is a pay phone) and if none was available you pulled out your butt set (dial of course) and got DT wherever you found it!!!!!
Yep I remember the Long Lines center, I worked in Harrisburg Pa(Bell of Pa) at first in the CO and dealt with Long Lines (ATT) at the time.
Those were the pre-bean counter days. When ckts got fixed in 2-4 hrs, not 2-4 days and you met your due date or it better be a customer reason why it was missed.
Nice to see some telephony folks in this group.
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still have a rotary phone in my garage the dang thing just won't break!!!!
Started in 1973 in the teletype room NOW did that one up you guys!!!!!!!!
Yep, remember the early pagers, first the beepers, then the digitals then the state of the art voice announcements ( all electronic dog leashes) if they went off you had to look for a coin box ( for you young'ins that is a pay phone) and if none was available you pulled out your butt set (dial of course) and got DT wherever you found it!!!!!
Yep I remember the Long Lines center, I worked in Harrisburg Pa(Bell of Pa) at first in the CO and dealt with Long Lines (ATT) at the time.
Those were the pre-bean counter days. When ckts got fixed in 2-4 hrs, not 2-4 days and you met your due date or it better be a customer reason why it was missed.
Nice to see some telephony folks in this group.
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still have a rotary phone in my garage the dang thing just won't break!!!!
I think I might have this pot...I have a black rotary (completely working) phone as one of my two corded landline phones.
It wasn't mine originally, but Mrs. Clean managed to find it and add it to our "collection" of stuff. And YES we do use it on occasion.Anyone calling or raising?
grisby
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Ok, so its a black 500 set. Hopefully its not a modular unit and is hardwired to the wall. OTHERWISE, I will see you with my hardwired yellow set. In my spare bedroom I have a 2500 set (whooppeeee!!==modernization) but the kids have their cordless units and their cells.
Do you think we will have to explain rotary to the young folks here?? Nah, let them look it up on the internet.
Do you think we will have to explain rotary to the young folks here?? Nah, let them look it up on the internet.
Yes, I do remember the first cell phone I bought Mrs. Clean, was the size of a good sized purse. Bought her a spare battery, which was $100 by itself.
And if you got into trouble that thing was a lethal weapon, due to its heft.Our TTY room was across the hall from the computer room. Those machines were massive in comparison to the thermal print T.I. Silent 700s, the IBM 2060 (?) powered by a room sized 2848 Control Unit. Not to mention the constant din all of those machines created in unison.
Ha Ha Ha...you said butt.
BTW, for our younger audience, DT=Dial Tone.
JohnHenry
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UNCLE! I give up, Grisby! You win!
I will, however, submit the following for extra credit:
- I practically grew up in a Step-By-Step CO,
- I was five years into my (second) career when I saw my first Cross-Bar,
- My computer science courses at Penn State involved punch cards.
(I can hear the groaning all the way down here, well below the Suwannee... "Will these dinosaurs just shut up and go away?!)
I will, however, submit the following for extra credit:
- I practically grew up in a Step-By-Step CO,
- I was five years into my (second) career when I saw my first Cross-Bar,
- My computer science courses at Penn State involved punch cards.
(I can hear the groaning all the way down here, well below the Suwannee... "Will these dinosaurs just shut up and go away?!)
JohnHenry
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I think I might have this pot...I have a black rotary (completely working) phone as one of my two corded landline phones.
Anyone calling or raising?
Sorry, my friend... I'm talking CAR PHONE!
Pockets
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Pockets wanna be my roomie? We can get a land line like the old people
Lets do it
No, its a "desktop" unit, circa 1954. My wall-mount is a TT.
Speaking of "desktop" phones, anyone live now or grow up in a house that had a phone "cubby" in a centrally located area of the home? How about one with a fold-out/disappearing seat just underneath?
grisby
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John Henry you mean SXS and 5XB then of course #ESS. Yep I remember those punch cards.
Nice talking with you guys, brings back memories of some real good times!!!!!!
grisby
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JohnHenry
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My Grandmother had a telephone cubby in her home. She refused to take out the old (I'm talkin' OLD) magneto phone system when the COs installed batteries.
No prob... my brother and I had great fun shocking the living crap out of each other with the mini voltage gererators!
No prob... my brother and I had great fun shocking the living crap out of each other with the mini voltage gererators!
Ronkh
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:lol2:
Yankee-Princess
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car phones? I'm lost:hmmm: