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Re: Flash

From Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.raspberry-pi
Subject Re: Flash
Date 2015-10-30 12:13 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 19:47:17 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:02:45 +0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie
> <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> declaimed the following:
> 
>>It figures when you think about it: small diameter telephone wires that
>>can be strung rather tighter between the poles than power lines. That
> 
> 	In my experience, the only time you see "small diameter telephone
> wires" is in the run from a distribution box to the house.
>
I was talking 'old' - individual wires strung between insulators, not 
multi-wire insulated cables. Where and when I grew up (NZ countryside  
poles and wires were the norm and fairly common in towns as well. The 
main difference was that in the country, most phones[*] were on party 
lines while towns had individual phone lines and exchanges.

Had to arrive in the UK to discover multi-wire telephone cables.

[*] and the phones had a crank handle rather than a dial - you listened 
first, said 'working?' in case you'd picked up during a pause, and 
cranked Morse - half turn for a dot, two or three turns for a dash - to 
indicate whether you wanted to talk to the exchange or a neighbour.


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  Re: Flash Mel Wilson <mwilson@the-wire.com> - 2015-10-25 23:00 +0000
    Re: Flash Roger Bell_West <roger+csrp201510@nospam.firedrake.org> - 2015-10-25 23:04 +0000
      Re: Flash Wayne Chirnside <frank@fuax.com> - 2015-10-25 23:42 +0000
        Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 22:19 -0400
          Re: Flash Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-10-28 11:55 +0000
            Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-28 12:40 +0000
              Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 12:26 -0400
                Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-28 22:02 +0000
                Re: Flash Roger Bell_West <roger+csrp201510@nospam.firedrake.org> - 2015-10-29 00:43 +0000
                Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-29 08:40 +0000
                Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 04:57 -0400
                Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-29 10:18 +0000
                Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 13:01 -0400
                Re: Flash Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-10-29 18:29 +0000
                Re: Flash Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-10-30 02:58 +0000
                Re: Flash Tony van der Hoff <tony@vanderhoff.org> - 2015-10-30 08:42 +0000
                Re: Flash fruit <fruit@invalid.org.uk> - 2015-10-30 09:39 +0000
                Re: Flash UoScAr <oscar.gooooooooooo@gooooooooogle.it> - 2015-10-30 20:00 +0800
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            Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-28 12:26 -0400
            Re: Flash Mark Justice <mark@faux.com> - 2015-10-28 20:41 +0000
              Re: Flash Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-10-29 01:02 +0000
                Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-29 08:43 +0000
                Re: Flash Dom <domafp@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-10-29 12:41 +0000
                Re: Flash Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-10-29 12:45 +0000
                Re: Flash Tim Hill <tim@invalid.org.uk> - 2015-10-29 13:26 +0000
                Re: Flash Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-10-29 16:12 +0000
                Re: Flash Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-10-29 16:54 +0000
                Re: Flash Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-10-29 17:01 +0000
                Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-29 12:45 +0000
                Re: Flash Dom <domafp@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2015-10-29 13:46 +0000
                Re: Flash fruit <fruit@invalid.org.uk> - 2015-10-29 14:35 +0000
                Re: Flash Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2015-10-29 13:47 +0000
                Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-29 13:50 +0000
                Re: Flash fruit <fruit@invalid.org.uk> - 2015-10-29 14:32 +0000
                Re: Flash - Warning. Even more off topic! Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2015-10-29 15:55 +0000
                Re: Flash - Warning. Even more off topic! "Kerr Mudd-John" <admin@127.0.0.1> - 2015-10-31 13:08 +0000
                Re: Flash alister <alister.nospam.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2015-10-29 15:25 +0000
                Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 13:18 -0400
                Re: Flash Rob <nomail@example.com> - 2015-10-29 15:26 +0000
                Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 13:06 -0400
                Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-29 05:00 -0400
                Re: Flash The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-10-29 10:21 +0000
                Re: Flash Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-10-29 19:57 -0400
                Re: Flash Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2015-10-30 07:10 +0000
                Re: Flash Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-10-29 19:47 -0400
                Re: Flash Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2015-10-30 12:13 +0000
            Re: Flash Wayne Chirnside <frank@fuax.com> - 2015-10-29 17:20 +0000
            Re: Flash Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2015-10-29 19:50 +0100
              Re: Flash druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-10-29 23:42 +0000
                Re: Flash Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2015-10-30 10:12 +0000
                Re: Flash Robert Riches <spamtrap42@jacob21819.net> - 2015-10-31 00:33 +0000
                Re: Flash Dr J R Stockton <reply1500@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2015-10-30 22:45 +0000
  Re: Flash "M.O.B. i L." <mobil@orbin.se> - 2015-10-26 19:35 +0100
    Re: Flash Wayne Chirnside <frank@fuax.com> - 2015-10-27 23:20 +0000
      Re: Flash druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2015-10-28 01:56 +0000
        Re: Flash rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2015-10-27 22:20 -0400
        Re: Flash Chris <c@b.a> - 2015-10-28 13:52 +1100
        Re: Flash Rob Morley <nospam@ntlworld.com> - 2015-10-28 05:01 +0000
          Re: Flash Folderol <general@musically.me.uk> - 2015-10-28 09:26 +0000

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