Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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For Bell Systems people - Something I did while watching a 45-10 football game
With omage to Jeff Foxworthy.....
Send back any you have......
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If you know 554 +58 was a white wall rotary phone or aln was a additional line. then your a bell system retiree.Worked on everything from open wire to ddm 2000's
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If you know
If you know what 6&6 is you are a Bell System Retiree
. 12 years coin,4 yrs frameman, 8 years cable maint.,7 yrs cxm.
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You can have any color you want, ma'am, as long as it's black.
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best deal I ever got !!
Thing is - by that time, it was no longer the Bell System. A guy I worked with had 12 years service at the time. He lamented that he needed "12&12" just to get to 6&6. |
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1969=2003 system tech NJ BELL Wasn't that Ford with the black thing, we would sell rt 3s to all the welfare recipient's in NJ
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not sure about Ford, but for quite a while, all you could get was a black phone. I'm talking about in the 50's.
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Your right/ they were made with a thing called bakelite, heavy as hell but they worked for ever.
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NW Bell
42 yrs in April ----last year!!! Remember when we charged for a colored phones? Beige, white, tourqoise, red... $1.00 per month. Black was free. Charged for 13ft receiver cords. Remember 4 & 8 party lines !!! Open wire for toll leads. Seemed like yesterday. We will be down the 1st of March.
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We also used to charge for touch tone, and remember all the extra equipment (touch tone converters) that were required ?
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and that's what they wanted - something that would last "forever" and would cut down on repair visits.
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HOW ABOUT RECITE THE COLOR CODE , LAYERED CABLE, A DUTCHMAN/ POT WIPE/ THE OLD TEST BOARD (14B BOARD) CUT AND KICK. 41 YEARS IN APRIL (LINE GANG) HOUSE GO'ES ON MARKET IN 2 WEEKS CAN'T WAIT TO CALL TV HOME...... SKI
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and the 2500 set, CO's, butt sets, cross connects, COAM cable, CEV, NIDs,
JK wire, 1200 baud, 56K, T-1 HSA's, Extra dollar for a phone color other than black, ringer equivilancies.......... Why fix it when it ain't broke Judge Green? Baby Bells...... Been there done that
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PA, NJ, CT, NC - Polo Ridge 2011 "The difficult we can do immediately the impossible just takes a little longer" |
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