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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 92 11:43:49 GMT
- From: kipp@s45.csrd.uiuc.edu (Lyle D. Kipp)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: A/A1 Answer Supervision
- Message-ID: <telecom12.702.4@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: UIUC Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 702, Message 4 of 9
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- > [Moderator's Note: Multi-line phones were first in use in New York
- > City in the middle 1920's. Does anyone remember the old three line
- > phones with six buttons? There was a hold button for each line. I
- > think they were manufactured by Automatic Electric in the 1940-50
- > period. GTE used them for multi-line business customers back then. PAT]
-
- Normally a lurker, I just couldn't let this one go by ...
-
- I remember the three line/six button phones, and I wasn't even born
- until 1964. In 1972, my parents opened a department store in my home
- town in southern Illinois. Our service was indeed from GTE, and the
- phones were manufactured by Automatic Electric. The store had two
- phone lines and used the third button for an intercom. The phones
- were still in use in 1990 when my parents leased out the building. I
- think the phones were returned to GTE at that time.
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