13 Dec 20
@divegeester saidIt’s quite astonishing to me how electronics technologies developed in parallel in the mid-late 1970s.
A “Party Line” wasn’t a messed up or crossed line call, it was a shared line where two households utilised the same physical phone line but with different numbers.
In my parents house we were just discovering the home telephone (on a party line) and the colour TV, and yet simultaneously across the world Wozniak and Jobs were launching the first ever personal computers with the Apple 1 and Apple 2.
13 Dec 20
@divegeester saidYes, my friend's family had one and it was really prone to crossed lines, but thanks for your vigilance regarding my posts. Peer review is always important. 😉
A “Party Line” wasn’t a messed up or crossed line call, it was a shared line where two households utilised the same physical phone line but with different numbers.
13 Dec 20
@earl-of-trumps saidI remember the instrumental that topped the charts
Sputnik
Sputnik was so big at the time, that America launched their own satellite shortly after and nobody even remembers its name.
Telstar.
13 Dec 20
@relentless-red saidIt’s not a crossed line, that’s something else. You seem to get prickly when you make mistakes, no offence was intended.
Yes, my friend's family had one and it was really prone to crossed lines, but thanks for your vigilance regarding my posts. Peer review is always important.
You should consider people reading and reply to your posts as a good thing and not something to be snarked at.
13 Dec 20
@divegeester saidFoks sake. My friend had a party line on which he got crossed lines which apparently was a common problem on them. My patience is gone, despite having been a member of a profession where patience is practiced again and again. Does that please you?
It’s not a crossed line, that’s something else. You seem to get prickly when you make mistakes, no offence was intended.
You should consider people reading and reply to your posts as a good thing and not something to be snarked at.
13 Dec 20
@cheesemaster saidAt 41 you wouldn't remember the old crank telephone with the party lines. 😉
I'm 41 and remember all of those things.
You're not as old as you think.
-VR
