Re: Ep.3 - A Very Special Too Damn Late Show

Jasper Janssen <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My local exhange has stopped accepting pulse-dialing.

This will probably eventually happen in the US as well. When pressed,
$TELCO will probably cite the need to still support older alarm systems
and such that may still use pulse dialing. What they are actually doing
is waiting for everyone who will complain if their 500 set stops working
to die.

http://www.telefoonmuseum.com/kunststof/t65_tdk/ <- that one, to be exact.

What's that round thing at the lower right? Hold? Lamp that blinks on
ringing? I note that the buttons appear to have the DIN 1451 font, and
also don't have any letters on them.

They're clearly audible when ringing and they're indestructible. What'll
kill it off is probably when the current home-PBX dies and I can't find a
secondhand replacement any more with sufficient ringing voltage.

Two of the lines at this house were recently converted from $TELCO to
$CABLE_TV_CO . While the installer was here, I hooked up 500 and 2500
sets to the interface box thingy for testing - if it could ring those,
it can ring anything. (I did only have two at once; a nominal $TELCO
line in a metro area should be able to ring five.)

Matt Roberds

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