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Originally Posted by Eric
Totally Sweet! Luv old architecture! Luv History! Thanx for the info on antiques definitions, Mitchel! Btw, I owe Beth a lot for gettin me interested in history... Thanx Beth!
Also, found out why dad bought the radio. Has a lot to do with how computers started. Learned today that the tubes acted like transistors that could amplify currents. Computers needed lots of transistors (vacume tubes) so the first ones were gigantic and couldnt do very much. Now they use photography to etch thousands of transistors on a quarter inch square wafer-like thing so computers can be Real small.
Okay, this is an "Old object" that my dad bought years ago. It was made in the 1920's but doesn't have a keypad so I dont know how it ever worked. But they used these before they had cells:
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Eric when this phone was in ues all phones were conected to a central swiching board were a real person called the operrator would manulay take a lin frome your phone and click it in to the line of the phone nuber you wanted to talke to this was cumbersom as the number of phone lins grew evetualy it was replaced with the automated swiching system which was a cage like devise with stacked contacts I wont go in to more on that unless you want me to nedlis to say it took thosands of wires for just a smale number of phone if you get a chans to look at any pictures of towns in the 20s you will note that thers many phone lines showing up in thouse pictures many people mistakinly idetify theas lines in the pictures as electric serive lines but in fact are phone lines
you see there are some benafits to being old LOL