Marc L said:
Yep. Young. ;D
Marc L said:
Tom said:Or John Wilson wiring our sites at the Plymouth rally with several (500?) hundred feet of phone cord, creating our own "network". Anyone wishing to use "the network" was required to raise a flag so others wouldn't get online and jam the network. See here.
My youngest son will be 42 next year. My oldest will be...oh,crap! (groan).Marc L said:
PatrioticStabilist said:My husband called a couple of times from Vietnam when he was there and from Taiwan when he was on R and R. My phone number was R-36-D. My husband said operators had never heard of such a number and had trouble with it. We had an old crank phone, ours was 3 longs. Those were the days. We still have the old phone on our family room wall from the old house.
What a revolution in electronics. Now Tom and I or our son and I talk half way around the world. Amazing.
Tom said:LOL Lou. Actually, it was two tones, one representing the horizontal numbers on the keypad, and the other representing the vertical numbers. Thus the term "multi-frequency".
Tom said:Negatory Lou. MF was MF, irrespective which side of the pond you were on. When I used to visit the US at that time (in the 70's) the phones were definitely MF and a source of entertainment for this buy from the sticks (aka boonies).
But .... time has a way of causing loss of memory ....
When I called home from college and gave the "number please" operator my parent's number (647-J) she rang once. Then said "is this Margi?" Yes. "Your parents aren't home, they're at your grandma's having dinner ... I'll put you through."
Tom said:Our oldest grandson is in his mid 30's. That would make me a .... dinosaur