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toploader55
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Wow
That's sooooo cool
That's sooooo cool
shawn
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About thirty-five years ago I worked in a very old hotel in Rhode Island that had a switchboard just like this. My first day on the job was not fun as I cut off a few phone calls.
toggleswitch2
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ooooh those left a lot of room for error!
My mother got patched in to a phone call of a family member (during his hospital stay) to his mistress. The callers could not hear my mother. Well I guess better she than his wife................
My mother got patched in to a phone call of a family member (during his hospital stay) to his mistress. The callers could not hear my mother. Well I guess better she than his wife................
sdlee
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one ringy dingy
wheres Ernistine when you need her?
wheres Ernistine when you need her?
Here she is!
I have this exact same switchboard at home in working condition.
They weigh a ton so shipping would be astronomical.
I have this exact same switchboard at home in working condition.
They weigh a ton so shipping would be astronomical.
laundromat
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When I was about 7 years old,we had a party line where a number of neighbors shared the same phone line. One day,when my aunt had gone into labor,my grandmother,"Mado",went to call the hospital and a drunken neighbor was on the line and said to her "Get the hell of my line, lady!"She immediately hung up, told her husband, my grandfather, who said what and he went directly to this guy's house and beat the shit out of him saying that if he ever spoke to any of his relatives like that again, he wouldn't be able to see daylight again.The number was MUrdock 6-3786.Not too long after that,we got our own line and had it for years UNderwood 6-4354.
All those old,neat exchanges Murdock,underwood,north,mulberry,oakwood,richfield,victoria...etc.
All those old,neat exchanges Murdock,underwood,north,mulberry,oakwood,richfield,victoria...etc.
That is a very cool blast from the past. I wonder which jack connects you to the internets, LOL?!
sdlee
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twenty points...if you know this one
BR-549 was the exchange to who and what?
BR-549 was the exchange to who and what?
One Ringy Dingy....
Yesterday morning while checking out the website for the Orange County (Ca) Performing Arts Center, I discovered that Lily Tomlin was to perform that night (one night only)!
Having never seen her live before, I checked if tickets were still available and they were! I found a friend to go and we saw her last night!
It was just her on stage, a one woman show and was very entertaining!! Among other things, she did about 10 minutes (each) of each of the charactors she is known for, including "Geraldine". After the show was over, she came back on stage and did about a 15 minute Q&A.... which was also a lot of fun!!
Yesterday morning while checking out the website for the Orange County (Ca) Performing Arts Center, I discovered that Lily Tomlin was to perform that night (one night only)!
Having never seen her live before, I checked if tickets were still available and they were! I found a friend to go and we saw her last night!
It was just her on stage, a one woman show and was very entertaining!! Among other things, she did about 10 minutes (each) of each of the charactors she is known for, including "Geraldine". After the show was over, she came back on stage and did about a 15 minute Q&A.... which was also a lot of fun!!
whirlcool
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BR-549, Juniors Shopping Channel on Hee Haw
Exchanges
See if you can find your old exchange name here:
See if you can find your old exchange name here:
autowasherfreak
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Too cool! I would have everything screwed up if I had to use one of those.
It really isn't has hard as it looks.
Has been years (our high school had a switchboard, and sometimes the office ladies allowed me to "work" it); back row is for answering, front for connecting.
You answer a call with one cord, then direct it to the proper number with the other. This is why it is called completing a circut, because in a sense that is what one is doing. Unplug one or both lines, and you disconnect the call(s) circut(s).
Mind you, there is a world of difference between say a small hotel switchboard and working for say a telephone company or a large business.
Would be impossible to go back to switchboards today. Far too many telephone calls, and it would be so expensive to even try and staff, much less build enough manual "switching" offices.
L.
Has been years (our high school had a switchboard, and sometimes the office ladies allowed me to "work" it); back row is for answering, front for connecting.
You answer a call with one cord, then direct it to the proper number with the other. This is why it is called completing a circut, because in a sense that is what one is doing. Unplug one or both lines, and you disconnect the call(s) circut(s).
Mind you, there is a world of difference between say a small hotel switchboard and working for say a telephone company or a large business.
Would be impossible to go back to switchboards today. Far too many telephone calls, and it would be so expensive to even try and staff, much less build enough manual "switching" offices.
L.
beadsobleach
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Liz
I don't see BUtterfield 8 there....
I don't see BUtterfield 8 there....
My Mum grew up with a phone number of Bright 19, her mother used to work the switchboard in the post office to pay for the hire purchase payments on her first washer.
Their Phone number then became 057 562 393 (Area Code,Exchange,Number and from there when the national standardised area codes came in, 03 57562393.
All numbers in Australia now run to 10 digits. For Landlines the first two are the area code, 03,02,08,07 (We only have 4 nationally) and the last 8 are the number. The first two or 3 digits of the number would once give you the exchange, but in these days for fully digital systems that is no longer the case. eg 07 3399 7521
Mobile (Cell) numbers here, start with a 04 the next two numbers originally signified the carrier (not any more) and the last 6 digits are the number. 0408 182 352. We no longer have home zones with roaming charges within the country. It just works regardless of what area you are in, with the same call rate as at home.
Our emergency number is 000.
en.wikipedia.org
Their Phone number then became 057 562 393 (Area Code,Exchange,Number and from there when the national standardised area codes came in, 03 57562393.
All numbers in Australia now run to 10 digits. For Landlines the first two are the area code, 03,02,08,07 (We only have 4 nationally) and the last 8 are the number. The first two or 3 digits of the number would once give you the exchange, but in these days for fully digital systems that is no longer the case. eg 07 3399 7521
Mobile (Cell) numbers here, start with a 04 the next two numbers originally signified the carrier (not any more) and the last 6 digits are the number. 0408 182 352. We no longer have home zones with roaming charges within the country. It just works regardless of what area you are in, with the same call rate as at home.
Our emergency number is 000.
Triple zero - Wikipedia
Brisnat8
I got so confused once on this change in your system, you see your old number,the "0" before the 57 just got dropped, it dissappeared. Vamoose! I had to wait months for a phone call from my cousin because no one had the sense to tell overseas callers about the dropped ZERO.
WHen did the new codes come in sometime after 1981??
Before the 10 number some numbers in old Sydney were 4 to 7 digits long if memory serves.
I got so confused once on this change in your system, you see your old number,the "0" before the 57 just got dropped, it dissappeared. Vamoose! I had to wait months for a phone call from my cousin because no one had the sense to tell overseas callers about the dropped ZERO.
WHen did the new codes come in sometime after 1981??
Before the 10 number some numbers in old Sydney were 4 to 7 digits long if memory serves.
ronhic
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Australian Phone Numbers
Hello Jetcone...
Phone numbers progressively changes around Australia between 1994 and 1998 according the the Wikipedia listing below though from what I recall, it took a little longer and there was a grace period where both versions of a number would work.
Sydney phone numbers used to work as follows....
Assuming that the local version of the number was 810 3523
From outside of Sydney but in Oz....(02) 810 3523
From overseas................................+61 2 810 3523
After the change they generally had a '9' added infront and there was no nead for people to dial the '02' if they also had the same '02' prefix...
So, to dial the same number
Locally or within the (02) zone....9810 3523
from Victoria (which is '03')....02 9810 3523
From Overseas...................+61 2 9810 3523
Canberra is in the same calling zone as Sydney now, but when my parents finished their house and had the phone connected in 1968, their phone number looked like....
1968 - (062) 81 6xxx .....it then became
1992ish - (06) 281 6xxx
1998ish - (02) 6281 6xxx which is now the final number as you would dial from outside the '02' zone
To dial Goulburn, which is 60miles away, they would have dialled (048) 21 xxxx. Now, because Goulburn has the same '02' prefix, they dial 4821 xxxx
Confused? Thousands upon thousands of particularly elderly Australians were even after a multi-million dollar advertising campaign. The biggest problem was that it was advertised as a 'change'. People generally react poorly to change especially when it is something like their phone number. Telstra could have minimised the impact of this by refering to it as 'updating' and ephasising how small the changes were to the user....
en.wikipedia.org
Hello Jetcone...
Phone numbers progressively changes around Australia between 1994 and 1998 according the the Wikipedia listing below though from what I recall, it took a little longer and there was a grace period where both versions of a number would work.
Sydney phone numbers used to work as follows....
Assuming that the local version of the number was 810 3523
From outside of Sydney but in Oz....(02) 810 3523
From overseas................................+61 2 810 3523
After the change they generally had a '9' added infront and there was no nead for people to dial the '02' if they also had the same '02' prefix...
So, to dial the same number
Locally or within the (02) zone....9810 3523
from Victoria (which is '03')....02 9810 3523
From Overseas...................+61 2 9810 3523
Canberra is in the same calling zone as Sydney now, but when my parents finished their house and had the phone connected in 1968, their phone number looked like....
1968 - (062) 81 6xxx .....it then became
1992ish - (06) 281 6xxx
1998ish - (02) 6281 6xxx which is now the final number as you would dial from outside the '02' zone
To dial Goulburn, which is 60miles away, they would have dialled (048) 21 xxxx. Now, because Goulburn has the same '02' prefix, they dial 4821 xxxx
Confused? Thousands upon thousands of particularly elderly Australians were even after a multi-million dollar advertising campaign. The biggest problem was that it was advertised as a 'change'. People generally react poorly to change especially when it is something like their phone number. Telstra could have minimised the impact of this by refering to it as 'updating' and ephasising how small the changes were to the user....
