there you see i have a failing memory :-) but it still makes sense
middle finger in 0 and index in 9 then dial with index finger as most
do, "tapping" the phone was quite common at one time especially on
payphones to avoid charges - quite different to modern phone tapping
IanW
On 03.11.17 08:39, Jez Cunningham wrote:
I remember being told they didn't use 111 because you could accidentally
send that with 3 hookswitch taps.
But 9 was not next to the finger rest unless you were in Sweden (and maybe
other Ericcson supplied countries) - most dials ran 1234567890.
Jez
On Thu, 2 Nov 2017 at 18:41, SwissPace <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
IIRC I joined the computer club at school in the first year of high
school which would make it 1972 when I first used an acoustic coupler
within a wooden box that had a broken clip (any coughs played havoc with
the connection) to connect a teletype (no screen) to a pdp11 - the first
internet access was with cix (compulink) also around 86, however as an
apprentice in '81 I worked with 300/75 baud modems which were definitely
not portable, the tester was a beast of a kit in a large heavy wooden box.
BTW I recently watch a show about BT (Post Office) in the UK where they
were looking at phones and the subject of why 999 was chosen came up -
the BT expert/presenter said that probably no one knew why that was
chosen, well I remember being told as an apprentice that it could not be
no 1 as that might not be picked up correctly in the exchange (strowger)
and that 9 was the easiet number to locate in the dark/smoke on a dial
phone - just feel for the finger gaurd and go up a bit around the dial
until the first hole- of course once you have got that sorted, repeating
the number is easier than switching to another hence 999
been a bit quiet of late photography wise - got made redundant as of
next May and then rehired and promoted (verbally agreed but I am waiting
to see contract) - its a funny old world we live in.
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