Great video. Thanks for uploading. I was a UK Operator in the 1980s and keeping track of how much a caller was depositing was done manually - a five-bar gate on the back of a ticket! Did I sometimes get it wrong? Quite possibly, but I would like to think it was always in the customer's favour. After 1987 we moved to computerised VDU, switchboards. I don't remember having to worry about what tones I'd just heard by then. It was probably done for us. Liked and subscribed.
I loved the 3 slot payphones. As decades ago. I got myself a copy of, Abby Hoffman's, Steel This Book. Was it Abby's? I forget? While somebody else stole the book, from me. But in that book. It described how to make a call. With a 3 slot payphone. For only 1 cent. One penny. Yes. You had to take a phone book cover. And tear off a strip. Then stick it down the, quarter slot. All the way down. And then put your penny in the nickel slot. Start to pull out the paper strip. From the quarter slot. Until the penny goes, ding. And you just made a call for 1 cents. It was so easy to do with a 3 slot payphone and phonebook. I did that multiple times through the years. As you did not need a phone freak box to do that. And I was a talented young teenager. Who would become a, Broadcast Engineer. For my next 50 years. Since I knew how to make a call for 1 penny. That's all I needed to know. To go to work for a big radio station. Along with my FCC License. You get 3 strikes. And I had a Home Run.. So? I miss those 3 slot payphones. As I can no longer make any discount calls. So I got a cell phone instead. With unlimited calling. Now it's not as much fun.. As from Texas. I can call a radio station in Los Angeles. To request a song. I can never hear. As I don't live in Los Angeles. I live in central, Texas. So where's the fun in that now? It's free to do. So that's no fun now. They have certainly over improved the telephone system. Now it's no fun either. What are we going to do for fun now? Purchase a Motorhome? Well I just did. Now they will never be able to catch me! I may Retired Broadcast Engineer. I know how to wreak havoc on the airwaves! RemyRAD
A great walk through of a great old piece of mechanical gear!
Great video. Thanks for uploading. I was a UK Operator in the 1980s and keeping track of how much a caller was depositing was done manually - a five-bar gate on the back of a ticket! Did I sometimes get it wrong? Quite possibly, but I would like to think it was always in the customer's favour. After 1987 we moved to computerised VDU, switchboards. I don't remember having to worry about what tones I'd just heard by then. It was probably done for us. Liked and subscribed.
Thanks for the like and sub, and that is really neat. I never was able to get close to any of the manually operated things in my short telecom career.
I loved the 3 slot payphones. As decades ago. I got myself a copy of, Abby Hoffman's, Steel This Book. Was it Abby's? I forget? While somebody else stole the book, from me. But in that book.
It described how to make a call. With a 3 slot payphone. For only 1 cent. One penny. Yes.
You had to take a phone book cover. And tear off a strip. Then stick it down the, quarter slot. All the way down. And then put your penny in the nickel slot. Start to pull out the paper strip. From the quarter slot. Until the penny goes, ding. And you just made a call for 1 cents. It was so easy to do with a 3 slot payphone and phonebook. I did that multiple times through the years. As you did not need a phone freak box to do that. And I was a talented young teenager. Who would become a, Broadcast Engineer. For my next 50 years. Since I knew how to make a call for 1 penny. That's all I needed to know. To go to work for a big radio station. Along with my FCC License. You get 3 strikes. And I had a Home Run.. So?
I miss those 3 slot payphones. As I can no longer make any discount calls. So I got a cell phone instead. With unlimited calling. Now it's not as much fun.. As from Texas. I can call a radio station in Los Angeles. To request a song. I can never hear. As I don't live in Los Angeles. I live in central, Texas. So where's the fun in that now? It's free to do. So that's no fun now.
They have certainly over improved the telephone system. Now it's no fun either. What are we going to do for fun now? Purchase a Motorhome? Well I just did. Now they will never be able to catch me!
I may Retired Broadcast Engineer. I know how to wreak havoc on the airwaves!
RemyRAD