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Forum: London Transport April 10th 12, 11:29 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,255
Posted By [email protected]
1951 original Direct Distance Dialing trial

On Apr 10, 5:11*pm, "
wrote:

New York City would have been 212, rather than 11, would it have not?

Yes. But there was a special arrangement from...
Forum: London Transport April 10th 12, 08:25 PM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,255
Posted By [email protected]
1951 original Direct Distance Dialing trial

(UK added due to their interest in this subject).

There was a prior conversation about area code assignment.

In November 1951 Englewood NJ got the first Direct Distance Dialing
for plain...
Forum: London Transport April 10th 12, 07:13 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

uk.railway, uk.transport.london restored due to their interest in
telecommunications.

On Apr 10, 12:26 pm, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

I think message rate service was $2-$3...
Forum: London Transport April 10th 12, 01:39 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE Telephone line numbers

On Apr 10, 12:41*am, spsffan wrote:

Oh, shades of tube radios with tubes of various voltages, in series,
adding up to approximately 120 volts. Most small table radios from...
Forum: London Transport April 9th 12, 02:19 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE Telephone line numbers

On Apr 9, 12:50*am, spsffan wrote:

No. 6 batteries

It rather makes sense, as I seem to recall them mostly in science labs
and science experiment kits of the kind...
Forum: London Transport April 9th 12, 01:57 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE Telephone line numbers

On Apr 8, 2:02*am, Charles Ellson wrote:
*Do they still make No. 6 dry cells?
For those who don't recall, these are the large batteries about the size
of a 16...
Forum: London Transport April 9th 12, 01:53 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE Automatic Electric

On Apr 6, 3:10*pm, "Adam H. Kerman" wrote:
Just out of curiosity, do you have any opinion regarding the service
and equipment quality of GTE/Automatic Electric vs. the Bell...
Forum: London Transport April 8th 12, 11:37 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE Telephone line numbers

On Apr 8, 2:02*am, Charles Ellson wrote:

Still zinc-carbon, I would not like to see what happens if an alkaline
version was short-circuited.

Quite a sight when a...
Forum: London Transport April 8th 12, 01:26 AM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE Telephone line numbers

Two things to add:

One phone number in the 1964 PRR timetable as a "YL n-nnnn". The
phone company was experimenting was using two meaningless letters as
way to expand dialable codes; such as in...
Forum: London Transport April 7th 12, 06:12 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE Telephone line numbers

On Apr 7, 1:17*am, spsffan wrote:
Just out of curiosity, do you have any opinion regarding the service
and equipment quality of GTE/Automatic Electric vs. the Bell...
Forum: London Transport April 6th 12, 06:35 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

On Apr 6, 12:15*pm, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

Ah, so they weren't really area codes per se. *Mexico never intended to
be part of the NANP; we just had dialing shortcuts for...
Forum: London Transport April 6th 12, 06:35 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
GTE; Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

On Apr 6, 1:12*pm, "Adam H. Kerman" wrote:
GTE, Cable & Wireless. A GTE subsidiary offered telephone service
in Dominican Republic in the 1940's, which is why that country is in...
Forum: London Transport April 5th 12, 01:42 AM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Cell phones, British dials

On Apr 4, 8:39*pm, "
wrote:

Emirates aeroplanes are now equipped on certain routes with equipment
that allows in-flight mobile phone...
Forum: London Transport April 5th 12, 01:40 AM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Cell phones, British dials

On Apr 4, 8:37*pm, "
wrote:

They still have automats in the Netherlands, mind you? But they are not
the same as the Horn & Hardart ones that you saw...
Forum: London Transport April 5th 12, 01:35 AM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

On Apr 4, 8:47*pm, "
wrote:

Curiously, some landline phones in the building were rotary--are
rotary sets still used in Britain?

They...
Forum: London Transport April 4th 12, 07:41 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

On Apr 4, 3:12*pm, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

Other carriers, who were not constrained by backwards compatibility,
were all-digital (using CDMA, GSM or iDEN) from the start and...
Forum: London Transport April 4th 12, 04:52 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Cell phones, British dials

On Apr 3, 6:06*pm, "
wrote:

London Underground stations used to have pay phones, though no longer. I
can't understand why they would do that,...
Forum: London Transport April 4th 12, 03:35 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Cell phones, British dials

On Apr 4, 2:53*am, Graeme Wall wrote:

They also used to have to have Candbury's vending machines, though those
disappeared around 2006/07.

Too many people...
Forum: London Transport April 4th 12, 03:26 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Cell phones, British dials

On Apr 3, 6:06*pm, "
wrote:

London Underground stations used to have pay phones, though no longer. I
can't understand why they would do that,...
Forum: London Transport April 4th 12, 02:00 AM
Replies: 3
Views: 1,377
Posted By [email protected]
Metroliner telephone service article

On Apr 3, 5:49*pm, "
wrote:

Interesting. Any pictures of the phones themselves?

The article had a drawing of one. But they looked basically like...
Forum: London Transport April 4th 12, 01:36 AM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

On Apr 3, 6:01*pm, "
wrote:

Returning to trains, the PATCO Lindenwold system, while automated,
always planned to have human backup readilly...
Forum: London Transport April 3rd 12, 09:34 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

On Apr 3, 5:03*pm, Stephen Sprunk wrote:


In the old Bell System days, despite continuing advances in
automation, they always insisted on having Operators handy in...
Forum: London Transport April 3rd 12, 08:42 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Telephone line numbers, prefixes, and area codes

On Apr 3, 3:45*pm, Stephen Sprunk wrote:

It amazes me that dedicated outward trunks of a PBX get dialable
numbers even though no on ever calls them.

PBX trunks...
Forum: London Transport April 3rd 12, 08:38 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Cell phones, British dials

On Apr 3, 3:46*pm, wrote:

Nobody seems to have mentioned New Zeeland, where the 0 is in the same
place, but the other digits run clockwise round the dial, so the 5 is
...
Forum: London Transport April 3rd 12, 06:23 PM
Replies: 1,201
Views: 196,664
Posted By [email protected]
Cell phones, British dials

On Apr 3, 4:13*am, Neil Williams wrote:
On Apr 2, 6:56*pm, wrote:

It used to be the ticket agent at a US station would call the
dispatcher to...
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