Yesterday 11:36 pm
The original phone system was pretty amazing.TwoIfByTea » Today, 1:12 pm » wrote: ↑ Id rather go back "In The Day" Landlines & "Payphones"
Honestly I wish half this stuff never been "Invented"
Of cousrse says my "Dumb @$$" posting this off a "SMARTHPHONE" too
Ya Im "GUILTY" part of the "Problem" Too my ownself
I think the limit was 6 miles for your very own pair of wires [unless you were on a "party line"] to carry the signal from the phone company's main switching station to your house.
Simple and dependable
Relatively expensive to use for long distance calls..let's not forget.
Whenever a tree would crash into the high voltage power lines the crash energy was mostly absorbed at that point. The tree would continue to fall into the phone cable, but more gently so.
99% of the time the 1000 pair phone cable was strong enough to keep America talking.