#telephone system

[phonesuite]

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[stone-cold-groove]

It’s all right... there’s a telephone right here, too! Bell Telephone System ad - 1955.

[taperwolf]

My city's downtown has a big old building that used to house all the AT&T stuff. When I first came to town, I got a job taking phone orders for a mail-order company that sells holiday gifts, food baskets and suchlike. Internet shopping didn't exist then, so from November through December they had rented out a couple of floors of the building to set up phones and old IBM terminals for the seasonal employees to enter in the nonstop phone orders.

Down on the first floor, near windows that looked out on the street, they used to have a sort of mini-museum display of old switchboards. And the other day I discovered that while whoever now owns the building has taken down the signs, the switchboards are still there.

(This is the best shot I could get at the time; I had to block the reflections with my body and a tote bag to see past the glass at all.)

[spockvarietyhour]

telephone switchboard systems like the one above are among the benefits high-tech changes have created to help improve productivity. 1985. [TPL Archives]

[daifukuxchan]

I just want to hear from you... V●ᴥ●V

[danismm]

Telephone system, 1908

[commodorez]

Look at the bank of 10 preselectors on this Siemens 100 line PBX and tell me this doesn’t look suspiciously similar to my ​УАТС-49 bank of similar preselectors.  I’m pretty sure a preselector is the same as a line finder in Bell System terminology.

Look at the relay pairs at the top, the fuses on the right, and the marking scheme on the individual rotors.  Did...  did Siemens rip off a Soviet design? Or is it the other way around?  I honestly don’t know.  The similarities extend to the tone plant seen around 1:00 minute into the video. 

You can’t tell me these two switches aren’t directly related.  I need to find some diagrams of these Siemens PBX’s now.

[popsixsquishcicerolipschitz]

"TOOLS OF TELEPHONY" 1956 WESTERN ELECTRIC TELEPHONE SYSTEM PROMO FILM BELL SYSTEM 98694