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Subject: Re: [OM] Technology Survey
From: Jez Cunningham <jez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 07:39:11 +0000
I remember being told they didn't use 111 because you could accidentally
send that with 3 hookswitch taps.
But 9 was not next to the finger rest unless you were in Sweden (and maybe
other Ericcson supplied countries) - most dials ran 1234567890.
Jez

On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 at 18:41, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> IIRC I joined the computer club at school in the first year of high
> school which would make it 1972 when I first used an acoustic coupler
> within a wooden box that had a broken clip (any coughs played havoc with
> the connection) to connect a teletype (no screen) to a pdp11 - the first
> internet access was with cix (compulink) also around 86, however as an
> apprentice in '81 I worked with 300/75 baud modems which were definitely
> not portable, the tester was a beast of a kit in a large heavy wooden box.
>
> BTW I recently watch a show about BT (Post Office) in the UK where they
> were looking at phones and the subject of why 999 was chosen came up -
> the BT expert/presenter said that probably no one knew why that was
> chosen, well I remember being told as an apprentice that it could not be
> no 1 as that might not be picked up correctly in the exchange (strowger)
> and that 9 was the easiet number to locate in the dark/smoke on a dial
> phone - just feel for the finger gaurd and go up a bit around the dial
> until the first hole- of course once you have got that sorted, repeating
> the number is easier than switching to another hence 999
>
> been a bit quiet of late photography wise - got made redundant as of
> next May and then rehired and promoted (verbally agreed but I am waiting
> to see contract) - its a funny old world we live in.
>
>
> IanW
>
> On 02.11.17 18:49, Jez Cunningham wrote:
> > Outside of work use of acoustic coupled TI Silent 700 )?) Compuserve was
> my
> > intro to t’internet before we had the Web.
> >
> > On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 at 17:36, Piers Hemy <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> 2400baud! Blimey, that were fast, lad!
> >>
> >> In my case private-capacity online began in 1986, perhaps a bit before
> >> then, and would have been a bulletin-board type service, possibly Bix,
> run
> >> by Byte magazine. I even had a packet-switch service to cut down the
> costs
> >> of downloading, since there were no local access points (dial-up,
> remember).
> >>
> >> Apart from timesharing terminal time in 1979-80, my first work-related
> >> online use wo
>
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