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Old 22nd Jul 2021, 4:08 pm   #4
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Default Re: Shared Service (Party Line) emulation

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Originally Posted by Dave Moll View Post

On receiving a call (with ringing on ones appropriate ringer), I seem to recall that one simply had to lift the handset to be connected to the caller.
Aye, and if the other party just happened to lift their handset to make a call, they would trip the ring and answer the incoming call to their neighbour - oops!

The psychic dog is no doubt an early urban myth, but..
When investigating ringing problems, many a subscriber, on being advised to pour water on the earth spike, thought the engineer was having a laugh and trying to wind them up.
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