Bell System 1979
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Western Electric 1927
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<script async src="//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.js" charset="utf-8"></script>It’s still very applicable these days— all of this stuff we’re using on our smartphones is relying on vast networks of powerful data centres scattered all over the world, often very much invisible…
Bell System 1965
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Western Electric 1924
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Bell Telephone 1959
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General Telephone & Electronics 1960
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Bell System 1964
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"phoneways in the sky". Maybe that's why their service was so lousy - sounded like we were using walkie talkies instead of telephones. We had that phone company up until they sold to Verizon, the Frontier. Anyone else have the misfortune of having to use GTE phone service?
"phoneways in the sky". Maybe that's why their service was so lousy - sounded like we were using walkie talkies instead of telephones. We had that phone company up until they sold to Verizon, the Frontier. Anyone else have the misfortune of having to use GTE phone service?
We started with Ma Bell, to New England Telephone, to AT&T, to Lucent, to Verizon, to FairPoint and now Consolidated Communications whos call center is in Asia. You cant understand them and they cant understand you. Since Ma Bell, when you called repair, etc. you got a real person in this state, not anymore.
Western Electric 1960
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1978 ITT, Belgium BTMC-78
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Columbia 1923
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Wesco 1907
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Bell Telephone System 1961
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Bell Systems 1959
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Western Electric 1918
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Western Electric 1956
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Easophones 1916
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Bell System 1966
The 1966 AT&T ad made me think of my friend Mike. I met him around 1982 when he was an ESS tech for Cincinnati Bell Telephone. At the time he was 36, recently divorced, and had three kids. Unfortunately I lost contact with him a couple years later, and didn't locate him until 2021. I sent him a Christmas card, and he called me a few days later, and we talked for over an hour. We had hoped to get together that Summer, but it never happened. Much to my disappointment, I found out he passed away in December, 2022.
Bendix 1947
When I was a telephone operator in the mid to late 70’s I worked as a Toll operator for the last year there. We each worked a 8 pair cord switchboard and we occasionally got “Mobile Calls” from people on car phones like in the ad. I remember once an older operator next to me telling the caller, “mobile move to higher ground” because the reception was cutting out while she was trying to connect the call. Mobile calls were all operator assisted calls back then, no direct dialing from car phones. The calls were all connected and disconnected by the operator on a cord switchboard, just like a long distance call on a payphone was then.
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Bell System 1925
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New York Telephone - Bell System 1966
Bell Telephone System 1959
Western Electric 1969
1959 ad. The phone with the dial in the handset became the Timeline, after some restyling. The one shown with pushbuttons was a modified model 500. The production model released was the 1500 (10 button), then the 2500 (12 button).
It's supposed to be Trimline, not timeline.
Bell Telephone System 1961
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