Phones like this have been used for all sorts of things in Canada. 30-40 years ago some hospitals had these in the lobby and when picked up they just automatically connected to a cab company for people needing a taxi. I have also seen them in a couple houses where a small town volunteer fire chief lived and they just made a direct connection to the fire hall, somewhat like an intercom but using the telephone company’s switching equipment to make the connection between places.
How would this be preferable to having one with buttons and just not using the buttons? You could maybe argue that it would be marginally less wasteful of resources, but I’d have thought that the overhead of manufacturing an entirely new type of phone would outweigh any savings on time/energy/costs.
In early days of telephones, first, not many people had them. Second, the switches that allowed pulse or touch tone dialing were very expensive and were difficult to put together. The USSR threw people at problems instead of developing complicated computers to do things.
You tell telephone operator who you want to call and operator connects you. Looks like never meant to be used by regular citizens and made for military bases and manufacturing facilities.
there is no president of the former USSR. there are multiple presidents in numerous ex-Soviet states. you're thinking of Russia, which was not the entire Soviet Union.
If I am typing his name (only the P., then my post is deleted by a bot).
So don't come posting here to be a historian hero, when there's nothing to pick here for you on online karma.
I was clearly with my previous post why I said USSR. And while you are right about what you say, you didn't even care a second about the bot. Do kindly go forward with your life, will you?
Bot is programmed to see anything with it related to current events in a specific country. They should program said bot to look at more keywords in one post
yeah, i get it of course. its just kinda weird. im not a big fan of putler personally and it just kinda feels off-putting, but this is a pretty big sub and mods arent paid. preemptive bots make sense in this case; i just dont like it, lol.
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Probably used in businesses/government offices where there is a single connected line... pick up and its just auto connected to one contact. For instance gate house on a government building calls up to officials office by just lifting the phone, and vice versa. They do look creepy though lol.
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Functions like walkie-talkie. For example a security guard might only need to be able contact his officer (or vise versa, officers might have several of these on their desk, each with a direct wire line), but not his wife and cousin while at work. If this one rings you pick it up immediately! At the other hand THIS line can't be "busy" in case of emergency .
With operators. You pick the receiver and got connected to an operator on the switboard. You tell them the number or name and they would physically connect your jack with the destination (before them calling the receiver and letting them know there was an incoming call for then)
For medium and long distance calls they would daisy chain switchboards until they reached the destination. It was bonkers and still in use longer than you would think.
When the semi-autimatic switchboards where in use, the manual method was still in use for long distance calls (at least on my country)
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u/AmonGusSus2137 6d ago
Why? And how does it work?