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Making a telephone call, 1959 style
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:28 |
Dear All |
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AnnCardiff | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:31 |
and no one got calls from India on a daily basis in those days :-D |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:32 |
Elizabeth |
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:38 |
Dear Ladies |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:45 |
My mum used to work in the telephone exchange in Southampton. |
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Elizabethofseasons | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:51 |
Dear Maggie |
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Kay???? | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:55 |
That was when STD had a whole new meaning,,,,,,, :-D :-D ;-) |
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SueCar | Report | 4 Sep 2014 22:56 |
It was 'Push Button A' or 'Push Button B'. I remember they were silver-coloured but I can't remember what they were for :-D :-D |
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maggiewinchester | Report | 4 Sep 2014 23:12 |
If you pushed button 'A' and 'B' in a certain order, you got a free phone call :-D |
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Bobtanian | Report | 4 Sep 2014 23:13 |
Yeah Subscriber Trunk Dialing |
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BillinOz | Report | 5 Sep 2014 01:39 |
How about the First ATMs. |
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jax | Report | 5 Sep 2014 03:09 |
ATM's 1938??? |
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BillinOz | Report | 5 Sep 2014 03:24 |
jax, Yep probably Electronic ,read again, Mechanical ATM.or Hole in the wall dispensing machines, (doubt if they could have been called Automatic). like those chocolate bar machines in railway stations, only more Sophisticated, My eyes do not lie, nor do my connection with the Bank after I left school 1948. |
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Mayfield | Report | 5 Sep 2014 09:15 |
Always pressed button B just in case before making a call, a bit like a free slot machine it made that tick tick tick sound and with luck 4 Pennies emerged :-D |
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Sharron | Report | 5 Sep 2014 09:21 |
Fred was a long distance lorry driver in the fifties and early sixties and he remembered ringing his boss from Nottingham and having to tell the operator the call went through Guildford. |
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GeordiePride | Report | 5 Sep 2014 10:16 |
If someone had said to me in 1959 that sometime in the future you will be able to carry a telephone in your pocket and you will be able to dial anyone in the world, I would have told them to get their head examined. :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 :-0 ;-) ;-) ;-) |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 5 Sep 2014 10:21 |
I was still having to go through the operators from 1967 -1970 when I did my weekly phone call to my parents at a friends house. My parents applied for a phone in 1967, when I left home, and it arrived in 1970 just as I went abroad and unable because of cost to phone UK. We had to communicate via what is now referred to as snail mail. :-) |
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RolloTheRed | Report | 5 Sep 2014 10:28 |
London had self dialing within Greater London years before. I am fairly sure the call box charge for a local call was 4 old pence in 1960. From the late 60s those with a technical bent, inspired by captain crunch, put together little gizmos which sent the right tones down the lines for free calls and pranks. My uni. took a dim view. Nowadays things have moved on and it is OK for big biz and big govt to hack yr phone but when needed most either it is flat or no signal. |
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Bobtanian | Report | 5 Sep 2014 15:44 |
was also possible to get free calls by tapping out the numbers on the cradle on some phones... |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 5 Sep 2014 17:00 |
Shared lines......A great thing if you were nosy about your neighbours ;-) |
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