Phone-O-Graphy – Old Long Lines Tower – Manchester, NH Central Office
Phone-o-Graphy – Manchester NH Telephone Booth (with no Pay Phone!)
Phone-o-Graphy – Manhole Cover – Elm Street – Manchester, NH
Phone of the Day: ROLM phone at the Local Bob’s Stores
This was taken at a local Bob’s Stores when the day after the New England Patriots won their fifth Super Bowl. (Roger That! Heh, heh, heh.) For this chain, ROLM is alive and well, to use the cliche. Because ROLM predates the Internet and modern day documentation, I have no idea what type of PBX or KSU it lives on. The set themselves is the 1990s generation, before they became German looking (possibly mid 1990s.) When ROLM was fully sold to Siemens, a few years later, they stopped selling their systems to America and incorporated ROLM features and their modernest designs. I’m not the expert in ROLM so forgive me.
Phone-o-graphy – 25 Pair Amphenol Cable
Video: eBay Haul – Old AT&T Documentation, part two
This is part two, a part three to finish off my live commentary of the AT&T Sourcebook will follow later this week.
Enjoy!
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Video: eBay Haul – Old AT&T Documentation
In this video, I show my latest eBay finds of old Dimension PBX and Bell System Practices on the Dataphone from 1983! Enjoy!
Telephony 101: On Voice Mail
Some people love voice mail, many just hate it. Many are apparently so egotistical, they think it’s not worth listening to 2 minutes of a voice based message than a generic email.
People also think email is better, but do you know the history of voicemail?
if the answer is no, lets go down memory lane of Voice Mail.
Voicemail is often assumed to be an electronic answering machine on a server. While it’s true, its origins was almost similar to sending a letter or an email, just with spoken word.
The first indication of such language was in printed publications in 1877. A famous man named Thomas Edison with an invention called the phonograph. For the Gen-X audience and older, this is basically a record player. Millenials are probably familiar to just be cool for the latest trend. While it was well known for songs, the ability to record spoken word, as a way to replace letter writing had the possibility. The “voice mail” language was in the lexicon by the 1910s.
While the answering machine was invented in the 1960s, the ability to install these would be so cost prohibitive, and worse, a wiring nightmare. In the early 1970s, Motorola introduced pagers that provided one way voice messages that would be answered by an “answering center” (this in 2017 is completely archaic with the advent of digital telephony, automated attendants, in fact the size of these answering centers were the size of contact centers, which was not existent at the time.) These pagers used UHF signals and were often used for volunteer fire fighters, etc. In this sense, this could be considered as a voice message.
Remembering Uncle Les
I have had a long-standing policy for not discussing my family on any of my network of blogs and portals. I respect my family’s privacy and any named individual is typically off limits.
Rules are waved in this situation.
Ugliest Operator Consoles, part nine
I’m the last guy to critique the look and feel of operator consoles. I’m not the guy who says “lookie… at this sleek and modern design of a set that doesn’t do anything significant” crap
This set (again found off an eBay listing) is an operator console for ROLM based PBX systems. Despite the last patch of their flagship 9100 systems probably of two decades; some sets are still in use.