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https://youtu.be/9JxhTnWrKYs And in response to Bob's memories: https://youtu.be/-w3iPFl-cfI 900 dollarydoos. On 11/10/2020 4:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Not nearly as exciting, but when I was a teen and I went someplace in the evening, Mom would have me call collect for myself

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"can you hear me now" ?  I like that ann On 11/11/2020 8:07 AM, Henk Terhell wrote: Looks like we have to add Phones to the 2021 PUG themes. Henk Op 2020-11-11 om 00:57 schreef David J Brooks: On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:23 PM Larry Colen wrote: On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Bob Pdml

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Looks like we have to add Phones to the 2021 PUG themes. Henk Op 2020-11-11 om 00:57 schreef David J Brooks: On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:23 PM Larry Colen wrote: On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: Luxury! When I were a lad if I wanted to talk to me mam we ‘ad to ‘ire a relay

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UK public phones required payment _after_ connection. There was a small pause between connection and the noise to make payment, to allow the callee to recite their number so that the caller knew they were through to the correct one. Just enough time to get a terse sentence out with necessary

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lineman%27s_handset Still have mine. On 11/10/2020 18:55:49, David J Brooks wrote: We kept our rotary phone cause it will work in power outages were the cordless panasonic will not.:-) Dave On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:19 PM ann sanfedele wrote: That method was

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On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:23 PM Larry Colen wrote: > > > > On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: > > > > Luxury! When I were a lad if I wanted to talk to me mam we ‘ad to ‘ire a > relay team of Swiss yodellers to yodel a message from one side o’ t’valley > to t’other. ‘Appen she wuz

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We kept our rotary phone cause it will work in power outages were the cordless panasonic will not.:-) Dave On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 5:19 PM ann sanfedele wrote: > That method was used often to let someone know you were safe to home, > arriving soon, etc.. sometimes one would use a fake name

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That method was used often to let someone know you were safe to home, arriving soon, etc.. sometimes one would use a fake name that parsed to a message.. ann On 11/10/2020 4:22 PM, Larry Colen wrote: Not nearly as exciting, but when I was a teen and I went someplace in the evening, Mom

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> On 10 Nov 2020, at 21:44, Paul Sorenson wrote: > > Most people didn't know that a rotary dial was nothing but an on-off switch. >  > Like mine (it’s Belgian): https://www.instagram.com/p/B-RcgFWgL-X/?igshid=ikzb4uqdd8m0 > - -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net

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Most people didn't know that a rotary dial was nothing but an on-off switch.   -p On 11/10/2020 3:36 PM, Ralf R Radermacher wrote: Am 10.11.20 um 22:22 schrieb Larry Colen: Not nearly as exciting, but when I was a teen and I went someplace in the evening, Mom would have me call collect for

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Am 10.11.20 um 22:22 schrieb Larry Colen: Not nearly as exciting, but when I was a teen and I went someplace in the evening, Mom would have me call collect for myself when I arrived safely and she’d reject the call so that it wouldn’t cost anything. My parents suspected me to cause those

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> On Nov 10, 2020, at 12:54 PM, Bob Pdml wrote: > > Luxury! When I were a lad if I wanted to talk to me mam we ‘ad to ‘ire a > relay team of Swiss yodellers to yodel a message from one side o’ t’valley to > t’other. ‘Appen she wuz wuckin’ dahn t’pit that day, it bein’ in Lancashire > like,

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Luxury! When I were a lad if I wanted to talk to me mam we ‘ad to ‘ire a relay team of Swiss yodellers to yodel a message from one side o’ t’valley to t’other. ‘Appen she wuz wuckin’ dahn t’pit that day, it bein’ in Lancashire like, we ‘ad t’ire a team of Ethiopian runners too, and a scribe,

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Well into the 1980s, a call from Germany or Austria was difficult and quite expensive. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery * On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:21 PM Ralf R Radermacher wrote: > Am 10.11.20 um 16:52 schrieb Paul Sorenson: > > >

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Am 10.11.20 um 16:52 schrieb Paul Sorenson: On November 10, 1951 the first customer-dialed long distance phone call was made.  Prior to that, you had to contact a long distance operator to place those calls. Around 1968, we were on holiday in Yugoslavia and my uncle sent a telegram that he

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For all the "young 'uns" on the list, and all of us who are so used to phoning anywhere and having the world in the palm of our hands: On November 10, 1951 the first customer-dialed long distance phone call was made.  Prior to that, you had to contact a long distance operator to place those