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The 2nd Bronx Grand Concourse Panel program is now downloadable at evan-doorbell.com/production/

@evandoorbell I don't know if you've seen this, but heres one that an old friend of mine archived off a wire recorder youtube.com/watch?v=q3GVMw…

This is mostly real. The triple tone is in lieu of an operator answer phrase. When it sounds, it means go ahead and ask for what you want. youtube.com/watch?v=kfjwvG…

Merry Christmas! Ho, Ho, Hoe Avenue! m.youtube.com/watch?v=2C1TS0…

Got a new answering machine. The Western Electric model 1-B from 1955. Still had the original outgoing announcement. Sadly no incoming messages though. Its all tube and has a tone wheel like a B-3 organ for the beep. @evandoorbell @uncommnephemera @dmine45

@evandoorbell That's very interesting. Over the years of listening to your tapes (Oh goodness, its been nearly 15 years since I started listening) I noticed those very same differences of the PBX rings. It does seem to me that they are only 2 or 3 models, but with speed variances and options.

@avery_redbox jumpshare.com/s/sTtlflca7qTF…

Got a fun new toy and brought it up on the dim-bulb tester. A 101B Generator. This one was made for PBX's but is effectively the same used in later 355 Steps. @evandoorbell

@evandoorbell jumpshare.com/file-sharing/a… it looks like these guys do, but without an account its only up for 24hr's. If you have a google account you can just share it from a drive link too. you just have to turn on the "anyone with a link can view" box.

@avery_redbox Is there a quick convenient place to drop about five minutes of audio? I’d like you to hear this part of the upcoming program, and everyone else can hear it too.

A recording from right in front of the speaker.

Time to plan the funeral gofund.me/ffda0999a

@evandoorbell Well if you ever end up having to redo the upload have a way better photo of the device taken with not a phone camera.

@avery_redbox Wow! Small world. Too bad I didn’t know you had that picture before I posted the video on YouTube ha ha. I would’ve put the 685 right next to the picture of Joyce

Cognitronics and the Longest-Running Voice in Telephony, part 2, is now on YouTube youtu.be/RFL2dKvTM9Y

@uncommnephemera @evandoorbell I haven't gotten it to work yet unfortunately. I have powered it up, but it just kinda sits there. I have attempted to feed it MF's but it either can't hear or i'm doing something wrong

@avery_redbox @evandoorbell Oh wow! I wanna call it

@evandoorbell More pictures

@evandoorbell Evan, you will literally not believe what I have in my collection. I nearly jumped out of my chair when I heard the DCO guy mention the model number. I'm working on getting it working and have been having great difficultly because I have no manual. The demo helps a lot!

The internet archive needs our help. It's once again being threatened by record labels who don't give a crap about preservation. Please take a moment to check out this link. change.org/p/defend-the-i…

Check out some pictures from the recent Spring Interim Computer Festival held last month in Seattle. sdf.org/icf/events/icf… #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #community

Hello, @NASAHubble! Here's a view from the ground, just outside Jezero Crater (circled), taken by @NASAPersevere yesterday.

Thank you @sdf_pubnix, Mike Brutman and everyone else for another fun show. I hope to see you again at the next Interim Computer Festival!

All packed and onto the road I go. See you at @sdf_pubnix ‘s Interim Computer Festival this weekend in Seattle’s old Rainier brewery (3100 Airport Way s.)

@evandoorbell by pure chance while researching something else I found a paper that describes how the Northwestern Bell Traffic Rate System works from 1966. Page 284 of this PDF bitsavers.org/pdf/afips/1966…

Wishy-washy time for the mouse-infested PDP-8.