This is so amazing, things that no one would ever hear again, captured because of your insightfulness and cool hobby. Thank you, this rocks! I can't wait for the next installments! (repost from original).
I know this is a repost but I don't care. I'm fascinated by the subject matter, but I'd listen to Evan read the phone book (how appropriate, I suppose!).
The AT&T archives video about the fire is amazing. Watching the executives light up cigarettes in the office was a blast from the past. I wasn't born with this was high tech, but Evan, thank you for your work in archiving the sounds of the old network so I could experience it.
Absolutely, UK based here, but this sounds authentic and interesting even if the tones are not the same as we'd have heard. It allows a little insight to the routing logic that was being affected. UK based strowger system would often just fail with a silent line (with cracklyness for added fun) unless the P wire went to earth (ground) in which case it would give busy
"Please make no attempt to these codes. I repeat, please make no attempt to these codes" phreaks: oh I *gotta* do that. (repeating my comment from the first upload 🙂)
I hope i'm not too stupid to figur e this out on my own, and maybe its mentioned in the program...BUT, was the problem with the reorder tone caused by the fire? Are the two events unrelated? **EDIT** must have missed it before. Ben was making "routine" recordings "until this..." meaning, the fire.
Yes i'd like to know this too, maybe early stage of the fire was affecting the ringing machine, due to multiple short circuits on the power rails being cleared by fuses, etc? causing it to speed up slow down etc.? Pure speculation
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This is so amazing, things that no one would ever hear again, captured because of your insightfulness and cool hobby. Thank you, this rocks! I can't wait for the next installments! (repost from original).
I know this is a repost but I don't care. I'm fascinated by the subject matter, but I'd listen to Evan read the phone book (how appropriate, I suppose!).
Same here!
Did you know he narrated the audiobook version of Exploding The Phone by Phil Lapsley? He definitely has "the" voice for that industry!
Dial-a-Bargain is offline?! 😂😂 Thanks for all your work!!
The AT&T archives video about the fire is amazing. Watching the executives light up cigarettes in the office was a blast from the past. I wasn't born with this was high tech, but Evan, thank you for your work in archiving the sounds of the old network so I could experience it.
Glad you enjoyed it
Absolutely, UK based here, but this sounds authentic and interesting even if the tones are not the same as we'd have heard. It allows a little insight to the routing logic that was being affected. UK based strowger system would often just fail with a silent line (with cracklyness for added fun) unless the P wire went to earth (ground) in which case it would give busy
"Please make no attempt to these codes. I repeat, please make no attempt to these codes"
phreaks: oh I *gotta* do that.
(repeating my comment from the first upload 🙂)
Is the version that’s on your website the one with the fixed sound issue now?
hes back!
If you look at the CO in google maps, you can still see the soot from the fire on the windows!
recommended to me from a chap i know on discord who knows i am into telecomms... this is interesting to me
The voice at time 21:28 reminds me of Ike Godsey's wife on The Walton's show.
I hope i'm not too stupid to figur
e this out on my own, and maybe its mentioned in the program...BUT, was the problem with the reorder tone caused by the fire? Are the two events unrelated? **EDIT** must have missed it before. Ben was making "routine" recordings "until this..." meaning, the fire.
Yes i'd like to know this too, maybe early stage of the fire was affecting the ringing machine, due to multiple short circuits on the power rails being cleared by fuses, etc? causing it to speed up slow down etc.? Pure speculation
(assuming US systems also used the ringing machine to generate tones, i think it did, per connections museum's channel)
26:09 Why the skipping at the end?
How did she record her message from a restroom?? Long cord, I guess.
American vintage phones had LONG cords ;)
27:00 😂