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The following are sounds from preserved
step by step switches by a private collector in Mattoon, Illinois.
The switches are connected to the regular phone network where an
outside person can call in and using Touch Tones can make calls on
the switches.
The following switches are represented
here:
682 prefix: FTR-Kellog
(later ITT Kellog)
FTR (Federal Telephone and Radio) central office (later Kellog, still
later ITT-Kellog, and finally ITT when they ceased manufacturing) from
1953. The switch closely resemble the Automatic Electric style.
486 (IVanhoe) Prefix:
Stromberg-Carlson XY
375 Prefix: Automatic Electric
A website has been
established in honor of the old switching system. Please visit www.that70sswitch.com.
Files are in MP3
format. Click on a link to listen.
FTR-Kellog Switch (682 Prefix)
Recordings were made in November
2002. At the time these were made, the call-in adaptor was on this
switch.
Dial Tone
(Note - The faint MF tones you hear are from the AT&T pre-paid
calling card platform that I used when I was making these
recordings)
Busy Signal
Reorder Signal
Ringback Signal
Stromberg-Carlson XY Switch (486 Prefix)
Recorded in November
2006. At the time these were made, the call-in adaptor was on this
switch.
Alarm Circuit
Dial Tone
Busy Signal
Reorder Signal
Ringback Signal
1000 Hz Tone
(375 Prefix)
Recorded in November
2006. At the time these were made, the call-in adaptor was on the 486
switch.
Alarm Circuit
Busy Signal
Reorder Signal
Ringback Signal
Pay
Phones connected to the vintage switches
The following is a picture of a working
pay phone outside the shed where the FTR-Kellog switch is located. The
people in the photo are the owner of the switch and his family in an
undated photo.
Picture of a working pay phone outside the
shed where the FTR-Kellog switch is located. The people in the photo
are the owner of the switch and his family in an undated photo.
Charge-A-Call phones and phone booths - hooked up to the FTR switch
detailed above.
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