I’ve just bought a second hand book* published in May 1955.
I did not expect to get a handwritten note from the person responsible for its publication!
#telephoneHistory #telecoms #telecomsHeritage #telephone
* “compendium of the technical recommendations issued by CCIP, CCIT, CCIR of the international telecommunications union”
Basically the standard that describes how the post-war telecoms networks operated at an international level
Are you really really REALLY bored and want 500ish pages listing all the parts/cable/equipment that was available for a BT engineer to order through the British Telecom Stores department in 1996?
Then my friend, I have you covered:
https://downloads.paulseward.com/Telephony_Catalogues/BT-Stores-1996/
Have at it folks, tag me if you find anything weird/amusing
#britishTelecom #telecomsHistory #TelephoneHistory #telecomsHeritage #telephoneHistory #telephone #phone #phoneExchange #telephoneExchange
I had the green one on the bottom. Tag yourself! 😂
Seriously, it was a bit janky but I was delighted as a teenager that I could disconnect the bell so it wouldn't wake me up if someone called before 11am on a weekend. I can't remember if it was *designed* to be turned off; I definitely opened it up more than once because I could and because there was a loose wire in it.
This is at @connections -- I have so many photos to process!
Hey #telephone people - does anyone have a recording of a call to any of the 1990s "chat and date" services (eg, 0891 505050 - or 0891 343434)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wBifkGjrx4
The TV adverts were great, but I didn't have enough money to call one!
I'm told they were a maze like menu system, that took ages before you could chat with anyone
I'd like to make a realistic recreation, so If you have a recording you can share - please DM me! (discretion assured!)
Just sorted out a light-touch refurb on this GPO Tele 745 weatherproof #phone
The handset is a bit faded, scratched and tatty, but it’s had a good clean and a new cord, so it’s perfectly serviceable for #emf2024 and suitable @cutel mischief.
I bought this with the intention of installing it in the garden, it really needs a strip down and repaint… but I can get to all that after #emf 😀
#telephone #dialPhone #telecoms #telecom #telecomsHeritage #telephoneHistory
Now this is a nice find!
I've been passed a scan of a notebook from the late 1950s containing details of all the #telephoneExchanges in the UK
This sort of information was used by #telephone enthusiasts (UK #phreaks) to navigate their way around the toll (trunk) network
There were various techniques to get yourself onto a trunk, but once you were there the dialling codes in this notebook would get you anywhere in the country!
#phone #telephoneHistory #telecoms #phreak #telephoneHeritage
My new bedtime reading has arrived…
In the UK, AC13 telephone signalling used pulses of 2280Hz to represent the digits of a dialled phone number, call progress state etc.
This training document from 1983 was pretty late in the lifespan of in-band signalling like this, which had been around for 20+ years by this point.
It’ll be fun reading this from a “what would it do if I poked $thing at $time” point of view
#telephoneHistory #telecomHistory #telephone #telecoms #phreak #phreaking #phones
This is extremely silly.
I have a Nokia 105 #phone. No data or apps. Just a plain, dumb, mobile phone
Using a sim from aa.net.uk I've connect it to the C*Net VoIP network https://ckts.info
It's accessible on a CNet number, and can place calls just like any other phone on CNet!
Do I need this?
No.
Can it make normal calls?
Absolutely not!
Is it useful?
Not in the slightest.
Is it cool as heck?
Absolutely!
I'll make a demo video later…
I've just been thoroughly nerd sniped by someone telling me that the #asterisk SMS module supports BT Text, and that it should be possible to make that work on https://ckts.info
lpbkdotnet
Garrett Fuller
Terri K O 🍁