Re: Changes in Technologies


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Posted by Eric Abraham on April 28, 2007 at 14:08:19 from 63.245.133.233 user EricAbraham.

In Reply to: Changes in Technologies posted by Ed Kiser on April 27, 2007 at 18:17:06:

Yes, the "Good Old Days", when you picked up the receiver, cranked the handle once, got "Central" and she asked WHO you wanted to speak to and you said "Billy" and she knew which "Billy" you wanted to speak to. We had numbers, but used names to get a connection, so it would be understandable how Central could get numbers mixed up.

We had a sixteen party line with sixteen differnt rings - we were two longs and two shorts. Also, that is how most folks got their "news" of local happenings - a neighbor had the large wooden wall mounted phone next to their couch, the phone would ring, the battery operated radio and converstions would go off, the receiver held against the hostess' ear while she still sat on the couch (they had a couch, we had an old car seat), the receiver hung back up, the radio turned back up and the hostess would relate the what, who, where and why of someone else's conversation, but, then, everyone in that area were sort of "family". This was in South Central Missouri during the middle forties.

I would imagine that having a cell phone out in the wild with no way to recharge the battery, would considerably shorten the time one could use it. Pigeons would definately still be fairly reliable!

Eric Abraham - In the Wilds of North Central Kansas where we JUST got cell phone sevice and I joined the 21st Century!


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