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Old 10-17-2014, 03:26 PM
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This was back in the 1940's. Our family's had five digits which I remember clearly. We had a two party line. The parties had different rings so you knew when to pick up and when to pass. We had a rotary dial on our heavy single black telephone. Long distance cost a fortune and was operator assisted either station to station or person to person (even more costly).

Sometimes we used telegrams.
Can you imagine trying to explain to us back then what phones we would have today? It would seem like Buck Rogers. I can't even imagine trying to explain the computers we have. I can't tell you how many hours I spent in a library doing research for papers when now all we need is Google.
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