Middletown Ohio received its first ESS in the mid '70s Armco Steel was hardhearted there, and they had a complete 10,000 line block of phone numbers reserved for them. It was using a 1920s switch that was so bad it could take over a minute to connect to another local phone. They told Ohio Bell that they would go private if the exchange wasn't replaced. Ohio Bell brought in a 10,000 line ESS in a tractor trailer and switched them to it. Then they added on to the Central Office building, and started installing five identical 10,000 line sections to upgrade the entire exchange. Without Armco forcing the issue, we were scheduled to wait almost 20 years to replace that CO. It was kept in operation with parts from small town COs that were updated, then salvaged the old equipment for parts. On busy days it took multiple attempts to place a call, and you were frequently connected to a dead pair.
Thak you thank you!!! In my case radio less than a year old and given to me.. transmit no receive.. downloaded your image opened in chirp legend new version... 3-25-24 .. wrote the image to the radio.. then shut off radio and closed chirp.. opened chirp and turned on radio, read from radio, deleted those memory frequencies and copied (copy and paste) the frequencies from another uv-5r programed for my area.. in chirp and wrote them to the radio. Works like it should now. Transmit and recieve.. thanks again.. I know these little radios are a dime a dozen .. but it still had plastic on the screen.. just that new. Nice little knock about..
I used the newest version of chirp. I receive NOAA and a few other stations, but none of the local repeaters. There is one on the fire station radio tower 1 1/2 miles away. I watched all the videos, tried all the tricks, but no luck. I know about the offsets, etc. I'll get it figured out, somehow. Since I am receiving NOAA, I know it's not the receive, but it could be the programming. Simplex works.
And all of this, the incredibly complex electro mechanical machines, fantastically laborious manual processes, highly skilled labour, time consuming steps, all now obsolete and gone forever, except for this wonderful visible record. It just touched on ic's near the end, I wonder if anyone from that time, looks like the 60's, could have imagined how electronics would develop in the very near future. And the rate of progress has increased exponentially so can anyone now imagine the world in say 2085?! AI is now the big kicker, will it end the world or advance it beyond human imagination?!
In 1970 I worked at 8 Harrison Ave Boston. ( the outside of the building was used as the Headquarters for the all female Ghostbusters movie, it was down in the Combat Zone section of the city. You had to walk by all the strip clubs , peep shows and xrated movie and book businesses to get from subway to the office). There were two ESS machines in that building . I worked on the third floor ESS #1 . The other machine was on the seventh floor. I believe there was a Panel machine on the second floor and a number 5 crossbar on four or five. I wished I had taken pictures. It may have been forbidden to take pictures inside the building, I can't recall. When they changed the code it would take all night to updated the memory cards which I believe were 128 words x 56 bits. Each card was about seven inches by twelve . Just guessing , it's been almost fifty years.
I am still struggling with mine - No CTCSS and No DCS but still the squelch doesn't open when receiving a signal from a radio in the same room but transmits to that radio perfectly and receives ok when the monitor button is pressed.
At no point was this her car, it was the finance company's car. It would have become her car after her final payment. So here's the kicker... she *_WON'T_* be getting the car back, but she *_WILL_* still be paying for the car. Profoundly stupid.
They saved the cat from falling out of the tree by itself, which would have been tragic, if it happened. But luckily, they could help the cat, so now the cat did not fall down from the tree by itself, and they have saved the day. It's almost like saving Ukraine by demolishing its cities.
I knew a guy who did this and he owed 15,000 on the car. It ended up selling for 7000 and they sent him to collections for owing 8000. He was not able to get another loan and went into depression, got hooked on heroin and died. Just pay your bills and if you can’t you have to let it get re-Po’ed
Sooooo...you busted out the windows in front of the police.....hmmm...someone got some silver bracelets 😳 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 now I ask this question....was it worth it????
I remember when the Wisconsin Telephone Company (a unit of ATT) activated ESS on the Appleton, Wis. exchanges in April, 1978. The dial tone frequency changed. Touch Tone service along with Call Waiting, Speed Dialing, Three-Way Calling, and Call Forwarding became available. Pay phones started changing from rotary dial to Touch Tone, and pay phones changed from 10 cents a call to 20 cents a call. However, pay phones became dial tone first which meant you did not need coins for 911, to reach an operator and for "800" calls. ESS also meant the City of Appleton was able start having 911 service.
Wow... All of this paved the way to the digital age we now live in. If only the early architects could see just how we've come- BILLIONS of transistors in a single small chip.
Fat boy cop just doesn't want to get involved because he's a fat boy. He has the right at this point, she is causing a public disturbance and danger to the public as well.
Work that could not be done by humans didn't take jobs from humans. The transistors and reed switches shown here were crude, even by 1980 standards. Early IC logic gates simplified the designs, and progressed from Small Scale Integration to Very Large Scale Integration over a few decades. In 2000, I worked to bring the first Software Defined Telemetry receiver to production. It had 14 microprocessors, and millions of transistors, yet it was only seven inches tall. With the technology in this video, it would have been impossible to build. Even if you could hve built iit it would cover several square miles and need its own power plant to run it.
