Why Would I Buy This Old Junk? 1930's Telephone Switchboard + Dolls Eye Indicators

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00:00 Intro
00:35 How Was It Used?
01:13 Workmen's Pamphlets
01:34 Development Of Telephone Exchanges
02:07 Looking At All The Parts
04:25 Dolls Eye Indicators
05:43 What's Next?
#telephoneexchange #gpo #telephone #history #electronics #maker #synth #eurorack #technology #vintagetech #vintageelectronics

[@hackmodular]

What would you do with the indicators?

[@gabotron94]

world's noisiest:
-sequencer step indicator
-flip-dot display
or
- conway's game of life!

[@hackmodular]

@@gabotron94 ooh wow game of life is a cool idea!

[@matthewseymour8972]

Cue people in the mid-40s telling you their primary school had that tracing paper in the loos.... at least mine did. We literally used it as tracing paper.

[@hackmodular]

haha yeah you show it to people of a certain vintage and they all give the same "ah THAT horrible stuff" look 😂

[@TrinityCodex]

those indicators could be a large calculator!

[@claytonno2571]

good stuff man, glad you are sharing you work!