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We had 11 days after an ice storm with no power. All our neighbors had power. A tree limb fell across the power line to our house. We closed the BR doors and used a kerosene heater and lived in the LR for that time. Three people close together was cabin fever. We had hot water from the gas water heater. And city water. Having a generator for the well sounds like a good idea.
I still have some dial phones in my house and studio. Not too many years ago I had a person here that was supposed to be servicing my oil burner. He did not know how to use the phone. I should have show him the door then instead of allow him to damage my burner that he charged me for. /Something to do with the oil pump. I could not prove it but I swear he sold me a bill of crap.
I have a magicJack and a VOIP service from
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From Google:
Nov 1963 - The TOUCH-TONE® telephone made its Bell System commercial debut in November, 1963 and is well on its way to success. Customer enthusiasm for the new pushbutton service can be seen in some typical comments:. "The whole thing is like magic. You can dial very ...The TOUCH-TONE® telephone made its Bell System commercial debut in November,
1963 and is well on its way to success. Customer enthusiasm for the new pushbutton service can be seen in some typical comments:. "The whole thing is like magic. You can dial very fast and it's just wonderful." "Speed, simplicity...the sound is delightful."TDD
You have some of the phones that can double as weapons. You can hit someone over the head with one of those and take em out. *snicker*
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Ma Bell was just making use of some of the R&D they were doing for the military. The TT standard actually includes a 4th row of buttons down the right-hand side, used for special functions on the military phone networks of the day. All OBE now of course, now that everything is electronic, and most of the military phone systems are just now virtual networks riding the same long lines as everyone else. About the only dedicated physical circuits are between the larger installations.
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On Sun 27 Sep 2009 06:08:04p, The Daring Dufas told us...
I have only one land line phone in the house. It's an antique Bell System Model 202, like the one pictured, but in cast brass housing. It's in perfect working condition, along with the separate bell box, but is not currently connected. In an emergency it could be.
We rely solely on our cell phones for incoming and outgoing calls. The land line is only connected to our fax machine.
7 holes... sounds like they might correspond to the 4 rows & 3 columns on the keypad? Do you happen to remember if they were punched out in pairs?
Eric Law
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Well there are four horizontal frequencies and three vertical ones IIRC. Each digit button etc. sends a pair of frequencies. A total of
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keypad? Do you happen
As noted upstream, the standard does include a 4x4 grid. On civilian phones, they just leave off the 4th row of buttons. Somewhere I have an early TT 2500, with no # and * buttons- same sort of deal.
Can't remember what the symbols for the extra 4 buttons were, though.
Let's ask Google- here we go-
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Here's a better one with clearer pictures.
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Oh, it's very possible the technology was sooner than that. I remember about that same time, mid seventies, I saw a demo of a picture phone, at the telco. Black and white, but still very impressive. Now, we have web cams.
A dozen years ago, I fixed a garage door for a nice lady and her mom. The nice lady was 75 and her mother was 100 years old. They had a model 302 phone that they were still leasing from BellSouth.
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On Mon 28 Sep 2009 09:33:26p, The Daring Dufas told us...
I got my 202 from my grandparents when they "traded up" to a touch-tone desk set. :-) That 202 was the first phone they ever had, I think from the late 1920s.
Musta been more than a dozen years- it has been at least 15 since Ma Bell's children abandoned all rental phones in place, IIRC.
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I was guessing about the time period, all I remember is that it was in the 90's. A length of time soon to be 20 years. Hell, I remember the first grade from the 1950's, Sister Godzilla made quite an impression on me, I still have knots on my head from back then.
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That much I'm set up for. I have but rearely use a cordless phone and don't have an internet phone. I do have a real phone, one in almost every room. But I challenge the notion that anyone has died and is alive today. If he's alive now, whether his heart stopped or not, he was never dead.
Probably.
How long did it last?
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Almost two years, I think an anti-virus program trashed the software. I just haven't taken the time to fool around with it or ask tech support about it. I just renewed the number for another year because I give it out to people I don't want pestering me. It still records voice mail on the server and sends it to me via Email. I can forward the number to anywhere. I had it forwarded to an AT&T test number for a while when a collections agency was calling every day. Having a private phone number for $20 a year isn't bad at all.
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I could be wrong about seven. I have an image in my head, even after
50 years, of what the card looked like, and when I zoom in it looks like 7, but if I zoom in further, I get a warning that the daThe goal was to make it simple. This was long before 90% of people had heard of hexadecimal arithmetic.I don't think they were. It was meant to be very easy for an, as yet, not very technical public. In those days, only a few people knew how to plug speakers and a turntable into the back of an amplifier.
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