Ok I know most of the members here are old and should be able to remember.......
Posted 20 January 2019 - 03:24 PM
Ok I know most of the members here are old and should be able to remember.......
"With age comes wisdom .... and with wisdom comes the knowing when to avoid perfection!"
Posted 20 January 2019 - 04:38 PM
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They would have been well buggered with this one then...not a number in sight.
We had one of these on our farm. There were 7 other people that shared the same number, ours was 123U, the property next door was 123 S and the ring tone was the morse code for the suffix. Got to learn morse at an early age. And of course everyone heard all the conversations in the area and when you weren't picking up and listening to the neighbours goss the operator surely was.
Posted 21 January 2019 - 07:03 AM
a party line
our number along a country road in pukekohe was M, 2 long rings
so < 26 households "per party line"
at the end of the road was a local woman sitting on a stool in a switchboard room
possibly knitting between calls
she was the "operator" who would connect us to the world outside our line
i can't remember that we needed to use the dynamo on the phone to make a call
we had the modern accessory
the telephone battery(cell), about the size of a litre juice pack/milk bottle
https://www.nola.com...ator_recal.html
The first telephones were hard enough to use without the added harassment of the teenage boys who had been used as telephone operators – after all, they’d been telegraph operators from the beginning. But they weren’t suited for actually talking to real people. They were impatient, they liked to play jokes, and they swore. Thus, on September 1, 1878, Emma Nutt was hired,
she was patient and savvy, her voice cultured and soothing, according to the New England Historical Society. The customer response to her voice and patience was overwhelmingly positive, so boys were soon replaced by women.
Posted 21 January 2019 - 08:50 AM
Stayed on a farm that was on the party line,phone rang went to answer it and was told,not our ring,had to ask wtf they were talking about,tried to make a call and gave up as phone always seemed to have someone it. Not that long ago either early 80s
Posted 21 January 2019 - 09:18 AM
yeah, before you could make a call on the 1 line down your road
to someone else living on it or to the operator for "an outside line"
you had to make sure no one else was "on the line"
so you picked up and listened
if you heard the 'dial tone' you dialed
but if you heard a conversation, someone else was using the line
so you'd have to wait
and they'd hear the click as someone came on to the line and then went off
prompting them to stop nattering and end their call
sometimes when an outside call came in, the operator would interrupt the conversation to say
"an outside call has come in, could you please finish your conversation"
Posted 21 January 2019 - 09:28 AM
yeap we where 6299D on the Howick exchange.
"With age comes wisdom .... and with wisdom comes the knowing when to avoid perfection!"
Posted 21 January 2019 - 12:36 PM
yeap we where 6299D on the Howick exchange.
I still remember our Howick number too. Used to have an old lady a few doors down who always listened in to everyone's conversations on the party line.
Posted 21 January 2019 - 03:51 PM
Used to have an old lady a few doors down who always listened in to everyone's conversations on the party line.
It was likely us at NSA and the Five Eyes - got some right juicy stuff on ya too !!
Posted 21 January 2019 - 04:03 PM
Posted 21 January 2019 - 05:51 PM
Oh, I do love a good lamington.
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