An old telephone exchange
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l can thoroughly recommend that place,there's all sorts of telephonic equipment in a permanent exhibition too,in another building.Also much old electronic stuff in yet another place,and an exhibition of all sorts of electrically driven and generators in ANOTHER place!
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Thanks, I will make a point of visiting the Amberley chalkpits museum,in West Sussex to see and hear it.
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Glad you liked it,l know l did.Very nostalgic sounds,and it even had the old dial tone like a purring cat.The installation's at the Amberley Chalkpits Museum,in West Sussex.
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Fantastic, good to see and hear some strowger group selectors and final selectors in action. Must be 20+ years since I last saw them in action :-)
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Thanks,no microprocessors to act up in that...
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Cool!
Some old step by step switches...I think some of them were probably 50 years when they were taken out of service by Ma bell. Don't laugh at them...these switches were very reliable...newer switches of course needed less maintenance and fewer workers to maintain them.
whiskeyify 8 months ago
@whiskeyify Sometimes l do wonder if we've progressed or not! The new equipment wouldn't run for 50 years l suspect.
AG3304 8 months ago
Watching this video reminds me of a Kraftwerk song I heard recently on the radio, the song is called Telephone Call, I absolutely love it. The song came out in 1987, was this telephone exchange still in operation by then?
Lachlant1984 1 year ago
@Lachlant1984 l think it probably was still in use then!
AG3304 1 year ago