Learning new tech is hard

Onkel Neal · 01-19-21, 09:34 AM

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.

Jimbuna · 01-19-21, 12:37 PM

We had one of them when I was a youngster then along came the space age Touch-Tone telephone.

Platapus · 01-19-21, 12:57 PM

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.

Bilge_Rat · 01-19-21, 01:01 PM

I used to hate those, took a long time to dial and it was easy to make a mistake.

Aktungbby · 01-19-21, 01:10 PM

/\ 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:

nikimcbee · 01-19-21, 01:34 PM

Well, drink your milk, cuz one day you'll grow up and can get a 300 baud modem!

vienna · 01-19-21, 04:41 PM

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Platapus · 01-19-21, 05:05 PM

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.

Onkel Neal · 01-19-21, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Platapus

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.

No kidding. I was absolutely forbidden to dial 1 and then a number, under penalty of an extreme ass whoopin'

vienna · 01-19-21, 05:57 PM

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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01-19-21, 09:34 AM	#1
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,283 Downloads: 534 Uploads: 224	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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Jimbuna Chief of the Boat Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: 250 metres below the surface Posts: 181,102 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 13	We had one of them when I was a youngster then along came the space age Touch-Tone telephone. __________________ Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. Oh my God, not again!! GWX3.0 Download Page - Donation/instant access to GWX (Help SubSim)

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,939 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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Bilge_Rat Silent Hunter Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: standing watch... Posts: 3,792 Downloads: 344 Uploads: 0	I used to hate those, took a long time to dial and it was easy to make a mistake. __________________

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Aktungbby Gefallen Engel U-666 Join Date: Jul 2013 Location: On a tilted, overheated, overpopulated spinning mudball on Collision course with Andromeda Galaxy Posts: 27,843 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	/\ 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: __________________ "Only two things are infinite; The Universe and human squirrelyness; and I'm not too sure about the Universe" Last edited by Aktungbby; 01-19-21 at 07:38 PM.

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Platapus Fleet Admiral Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 18,939 Downloads: 63 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ abusus non tollit usum - A right should NOT be withheld from people on the basis that some tend to abuse that right.

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vienna Navy Seal Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Anywhere but the here & now... Posts: 7,498 Downloads: 85 Uploads: 0	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 MAS*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... <O> __________________ __________________________________________________ __