Neil Brown3d ago
Have you ever...
Used a telephone book
19.3%
Spoken to a (human) telephone operator
11.6%
Reversed charges on a call
7.4%
Made a call from pay phone / phone box
18.4%
Received a call on a pay phone / phone box
7.2%
Used a phone card
15.2%
Dialled from one exchange to another to route a call
2.6%
Used a rotary dial phone
18.2%
Poll ended at .
Simon Zerafa3d ago
Show threadNeil Brown

In terms of dialling through exchanges to make calls, see

https://www.ringbell.co.uk/nostalgia/AAZ.htm

STD Analogue Call Routing

Apr 4 at 7:15pmWeb
Show threadDavid Thomson3d ago
@neil now that’s the kind of site the internet was made for!
Show threadAnneH3d ago
@neil Nope. Never did that. Only local. My parents' number was [village name] 241.
Show threadbeaiouns 3d ago
@neil oh damn i thought you meant like breaking out of a voicemail box and dialing out from the IVR
Show threadNeil Brown3d ago
@beaiouns Ooh, good point, I should do a voicemail poll some time!
Show threadSimon Greenwood3d ago
@neil
When we moved to Doncaster in 1974, the phone book was half sized and about 100 pages. There were still outlying villages that had five and six figure dialling codes and two figure numbers. We got STD dialling in 1978 and the phone book was merged with Barnsley a couple of years later.
Show threadsolastalgia kris ☀️🧘🚲3d ago

@neil

I checked yes on all of them except this one, still don't understand what it means lol

Show threadAmy Worrall3d ago
@neil I have the vaguest of memories of doing that. My childhood phone number was Bridgemere 347, and I'm pretty sure that there was a local code of 85 to be able to direct dial it from some areas…
Show threadRichard Cole ¯\_(🧔🏻)_/¯2d ago

@neil We tested the configuration of a Honeywell 200 modem console, by dialling out via Dublin, somewhere else now long forgotten and then back to our Burroughs TC500 in Bournemouth.

Seemed to work OK and we moved the TC500 to Dublin.

Show threadAmandine2d ago
@neil that's the only one I've never used.
Show threadNeil Brown2d ago
@eco_amandine Ah - sadly, probably a hard blank to complete these days, outside a museum or homelab :(