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youtube.com/watch?v=mmm-ep… Really great video on a AT&T Long Lines bunker built in 1962 for the high reliability long distance circuits the government used. Wonderfully preserved and apparently some active equipment still housed there today.

@LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR I love this!

Kosmo comes for Christmas now on streaming services and bandcamp for this year! lookmumnocomputer.bandcamp.com/album/kosmo-co…

What’s this mystery object stuck to my telephone? youtu.be/F8R8rWIt2yI

@LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR Ooh! Now that’s an interesting project!

When you realise you have said machine sitting about in the shed and didn't even realise 😂. Time to make ye old Wetherspoons app! #thepubofthefuture #science #history #mechanics #appofold #nostalgia #bloodymary #pintsizecomputer

I had to get a silly thing out of my head Dialling 100 digits of pi on a GPO 748 telephone from 1971 youtube.com/watch?v=Z45q-W…

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@TheRealVonHorst @MPSHeritage @Pastpreservers @MPSTooting Not a lot, just a desk, chair, and some heating/lighting. I think the inside was mostly used for a policeman to take a statement from a victim/witness, or they could double as a short term holding cell. There’s a good writeup at policeboxes.com/Home.html

@MPSHeritage @Pastpreservers @MPSTooting What was inside them? They don’t look like there was much room inside for ‘stuff’ unless, well, y’know…

From its design in 1928 by Gilbert Mackenzie Trench (also architect of the 1939 @MPSTooting) until the introduction of personal radios, London's urban #landscape was dotted with police boxes. #Museum30 #DoctorWho

@puncwatch @marrolds_phones @frederific samhallas.co.uk/collection/bit… seems to suggest some (many? all?) were later retrofitted with tone callers, reversing them back to a more standard arrangement.

@puncwatch @marrolds_phones @frederific BR statesmen were special I think. As well as the logo, I think they were fitted with bells instead of the standard tone ringers weren’t they?

Did you know that the largest collector of 1980s telephones in the UK is in fact, the NHS?

Let down by this new fangled DSL technology? Why not try our tried and tested 56k Dial Up services !

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I'd end up owning one of these 🙌

Thanks again @LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR for the warm welcome yesterday at @NotObsoleteKent! It was a blast and I’m glad the Minitels found a nice home where people can experience it! youtu.be/yrvxv4SutWA

Attack of the minitel!

@nshiell @LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR Approx 98-127MHz according to radiomuseum.co.uk/R1132a.html

@LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR What frequency band could it tune into?

4 capacitors and boom

I've found my next phone.

**Exhibition announcement** I am really excited to exhibit some of my work to date at BT's London Headquarters. The exhibition is open to the public 5-7pm on Thursday the 21 September. Please RSVP via tinyurl.com/telephoneexcha… if you would like to join as spaces are limited.

Took me far too long to get around to editing this, but this was last weeks THG members swapmeet at unicorn kiosks. Not the largest swapmeet ever, but very enjoyable and I always love visiting unicorn.. their yard is just so pretty! m.youtube.com/watch?v=OTzVBZ…

@LOOKMUMNOCMPUTR New museum doorbell?

Well it had to be done..

We're trying to get hold of a couple more US Robotics Courier modems for our blazing fast Dial Up internet Providings if anyone's got one gathering dust 🙏

@NotObsoleteKent Nice! I love the vibrator dialtone on those PAXes

Gec pax 25 line now wired in in time for tomorrows open day.