Talk:Telephone switchboard

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Too Americanised[edit]

This page speaks repeatedly of cities, as if no one lived anywhere else. This is untrue, and seems over-Americanised. (In other English-speaking countries "city" normally means "very large town").--APW 14:10, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It's talking about the early 20th century, when most manually telephone calls served urban business customers, rather than connecting places where someone lived. So yes, a bit of informed discourse upon rural and suburban switchboards around the world would be welcome. Jim.henderson 15:52, 20 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it's not so much an American bias as an urban one, and stems in part from Bell System custom, which comes in turn from the scarcity of Bell System operations in small towns and rural areas. I have toned it down a little, and may get around to widening the scope some more. Jim.henderson 15:51, 24 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Divided Multiple Switchboard[edit]

I had to go outside Wikipedia and spend 10 mins before finding a decent explanation. I found it here [1] but you have to search within that page (two key references, 1st as "Divided-Multiple" and 2nd as "Divided Multiple" without hyphenation). This also explains "Straightforward Operation" versus "Call Circuit Operaion" as terms of art.

Would anyone like to comment on what should be added to the Wiki page based on the linked article? Shannock9 (talk) 10:09, 30 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References for Operation[edit]

Where is this section from? None of the two references go into explicit detail. I'd really like to search on the technical aspects of the old fully manual switchboards. 204.153.16.62 (talk) 21:29, 25 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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