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| From | The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.sys.raspberry-pi |
| Subject | Re: Flash |
| Date | 2015-10-29 13:50 +0000 |
| Organization | albasani.net |
| Message-ID | <n0t876$5ep$1@news.albasani.net> (permalink) |
| References | (7 earlier) <n0rr7l$njq$1@dont-email.me> <n0sm7k$34t$2@news.albasani.net> <xtoYx.313466$tY5.307146@fx36.am4> <n0t4dv$tq4$1@news.albasani.net> <20151029134716.36d80663@debian> |
On 29/10/15 13:47, Folderol wrote: > On Thu, 29 Oct 2015 12:45:51 +0000 > The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote: > >> On 29/10/15 12:41, Dom wrote: >>> On 29/10/15 08:43, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >>>> Dunno about the US but all phone lines in the UK are insulated >>>> multi-stranded twisted pairs. >>>> >>>> Even the ones up poles. >>> Dunno about your part of the UK, but here (and everywhere else I've >>> been) the cables between the poles and the house tend to be two >>> uninsulated cables, a few inches apart. >>> >> absolutely not ever round her. >> >> generally two or 4 pair in a sheath with a steel inner. >> >> You aren't confusing them with POWER cables carrying 240V are you? >> > When I was a wee small lad you used to see this a lot. Miles and miles of > poles along the roadside with dozens of uninsulated pairs, but I can't remember > the last time I saw them. > Yes, I *am* that old :) > well yes, back in the 50s but every cable since abouut 1960 has bee twisted pair strengthened and usually multipair, I think I last saw a porcelain insulated phone line sometime back in the 70s in Wales. -- the biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is.
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