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01-19-21, 09:34 AM | #1 |
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Learning new tech is hard
Man, this brings back memories. I remember getting the new dial phone. Of course, it was 20 years before my family got a single user line.
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01-19-21, 12:37 PM | #2 |
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We had one of them when I was a youngster then along came the space age Touch-Tone telephone.
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01-19-21, 12:57 PM | #3 |
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Making a long distance Phone call
Do younglings these days even know what the concept of a long distance phone call is? I don't think so.
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01-19-21, 01:01 PM | #4 |
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I used to hate those, took a long time to dial and it was easy to make a mistake.
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01-19-21, 01:10 PM | #5 |
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/\ especially with a hangnail on your fu...errrr dialing finger ... as a night dispatcher at a '70's alarm central-station, my nail-clipper was essential equipment!
Then there were the truckstops in my Trukkin' Daze: "Hellow dispatch, this is Aktung; truck 2825..." every AM on on one of these before cell phones:
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01-19-21, 01:34 PM | #6 |
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Well, drink your milk, cuz one day you'll grow up and can get a 300 baud modem!
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01-19-21, 04:41 PM | #7 |
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01-19-21, 05:05 PM | #8 |
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I remember reading articles advising people not to get the new 2400 baud modems as the phone lines would not be able to support it.
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01-19-21, 05:13 PM | #9 |
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01-19-21, 05:57 PM | #10 |
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As a kid, dialing 1 was not an option; if you wanted to make a long distance call, you had to dial 0, get an operator, tell her you wanted to make a long distance call, have her transfer you to a long distance operator, who would dial the call for you; sometimes, depending on the locale being called, you actually had to hang up and wait for the long distance operator to call you back once she had managed to make the connection(s); calling back then was very much as what you see in the old M*A*S*h reruns where radar has to get connected through to Seoul, then Tokyo, then wherever else just to get a call back to the states; I spent a summer in Central America in 1965 and when we had to make a call, even in the country we were in, it was a daisy chain of connections, so you kind of had to go to the telephone exchange (private phones were very expensive and rare), tell them who you wanted to call, and go home; there were always small groups of kids hanging out around the exchange ad, when your call was patched through, the telephone operator would dispatch one of the kids to you r home to alert you the call was ready, for which you tipped the kid...
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