From FB group Bell Telephone… Ars Technica article link at the end. Me: You’re right, Ed. I’m also on another old timer’s group and someone brought up the days we were coming in from gym class in high school, and we had a hard time breathing because of the smog here in the LA basin.
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From FB group Bell Telephone… Oct 28 Pat Chicas We (at where I worked) used all Cisco 7900 sets. You can tap the help “?” button twice during a call and see the statistics for the call, both for a time (per second?) and cumulative. I would go to one bldg and make a call,
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From FB group Bell Telephone… Oct 29, 30 to Ronald Cooper Yeah, Touchtone is an excellent example of AT&T’s holding back technology. Besides the customer paying them for a service that benefitted AT&T more, making the customer pay so much ($1.20 a month, when my phone bill was $10 to $15 a month), they gave
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Here’s a photo of one contact I made from a tin can lid. I cut it out with a scissors, and flattened and bent it with a hammer on a heavy block of steel. It’s a bit blurry because I used a magnifying glass to get closer.
From FB group Vintage Transistor Radios Jim LaFrance: I’ve never found a Zenith that was not worthy of repair. Good solid builds! me: I agree; they’re solid, well designed radios. Now that I have a bunch, my supply of old germanium transistors that I had accumulated seems inadequate, so I may have to start experimenting
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From my post to FB group Bell Telephone… Around 1967 I was on leave from the army, and our mentor took a friend and I down to San Diego to troubleshoot the comms system on the USS Ticonderoga. Here I was on leave from eating in a mess hall, and we ate lunch in the
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I have had to make several contacts for the Zenith Royal 500 transistor radios, and I’m only on the second radio refurbishing. Most of the problems have been mechanical – worn volume controls, tuning capacitor shorted because the screw for the trimmer capacitor was grounding, and bad battery contacts. The battery contacts have been horribly
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FB Telephone group My least favorite part of the job was doing the crossconnects after new underground cables were installed. The contractor’s guys had punched down the cables and spread icky pic all over everything, walls, backboards, blocks, everything! I’d do some work and go to lunch and have to wash that jelly off from
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More from FB Telephone group. Continued from yesterday’s thread. Yeah, those numbers sound familiar. When we cutover to the digital PBXs, all those key systems were abandoned, and all of the hundred pair cables between bldgs were only partially used. I pulled of most of the crossconnect wires, so there wasn’t much need for more
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From FB group Bell Telephone Yeah, that’s the problem. Them fans whining all the time, and having to rinse out the filters in the bathroom every 6 months to keep the PBXs from overheating. I had to get the a/c guys to come to the phone room often and blow out the mold clogging the
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