Wow! Loved hearing “The Voice”, Alexander Scourby. He was the voice of so many documentaries for decades. I would love to see a film on how the telephone system worked (technical details). We always see the iconic switchboard operators, but I’ve never understood how the actions they do gets you call to a number in , say Australia. My mother was Australian and we would place a call to someone in her family a couple of times a year. My father would place a call to the operator on a Tuesday evening and tell them the name and number of the person we were calling. Then he would hang up and wait until Wednesday evening, when he would get a call from the overseas operator to get ready for the call (it took about 24hrs!). We would have to shout into the phone and the people we were calling sounded like they were at the end of a long tunnel - “Modern technology”!

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3 жыл бұрын

Hi Greg, wow, that's a fascinating story. Lots of changes since then! Thank you. ~Victor, CHAP

@unbiased1

Жыл бұрын

That explains a lot. I was just about to comment on the same voice being in every documentary I've ever seen. Well now I know it wasn't my imagination, it really was the same voice. As for the calls and how they were handled, from what you describe it sounds like your dad was calling your local operator who took down the name and the number of the person he wanted to reach. The info was then passed to a long distance handler who deals with person to person calls. The long distance operator/s used to have different routes to reach different places. Sometimes they had direct link with the country in question, but sometimes they had to go through intermediaries, depending on location, volume of traffic etc. I remember, back in the day, the satellite links were the worst. There was always a long delay between the voices. What's worse, you'd often get to hear echo and even loud static throughout the call.

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Жыл бұрын

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Жыл бұрын

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Are things truly better nowadays than they were back then? Seems somehow we have both more, and less. Would’ve loved to see this scale of industry.

@Johan-ez5wo

3 жыл бұрын

It looked more relaxed an fun then

4:08 aesthetic

The brief music in the middle is a little dark.

back in the day when Telecommunications sounded like the group kraftwerk on xanax

RYRYRY At 9:31 the girl pulls out an IBM Punch Card. Anyone remember how to 'Read' the punches? (Clue 'J' 'R') Oh, just take me back to the '60's ! NNNN

@skyelord6229

8 ай бұрын

Good old Hollerith

KRAFTWERK ..THE EARLY YEARS (LOST RECORDINGS)

Wow

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If only they knew what they were starting when they launched the first satellite into space.