EV> EV>A friend let me visit him at the Exchange where he worked, so I can   
   EV> EV>understand what You went through.   
   EV>-snip-   
   EV> TW> That brings back memories of my time laying up in the cable   
   EV> TW> tray in the switch room.   
   EV> TW> The clicking after while started to sound musical   
   EV>Howdy! Tom,   
      
   EV>Yes, the rhythm pattern of those old Step By Step Ratchet Relays was   
   EV>something that either You liked or it would drive You crazy(ier?).   
      
   EV>The Teletype Machines I was around in the Navy had a musical pattern   
   EV>too, didn't they?   
   EV>Or didn't they use 'em on on the Sub that You were stationed on?   
      
   Submarines in my dad did have Teletype machines. Never spent enough time   
   in the radio shack to think of them much more then a very noisy machine.   
   Kinda like a the old Type setting machine used by newspapers.   
      
   EV>The Exchange where I visited my friend had Crossbar equipment in it.   
      
   While in bigger coties they did have crossbar but up in montana al they   
   had was the stroger Switches in the bigger cities and the small towns   
   stil had manual plug boards.   
      
   EV>Now that the Telephone Company uses ESS (Electronic Switching System)   
   EV>computers I would guess there wouldn't be any noise hardly at all.   
      
   True. Even the later crossbar equipment used Solid State Switches.   
      
   EV>I know Ma Bell was glad when he retired.   
      
   I had inteernded to go back to the Telephone company after my "Forded by   
   the Draft Baord Military service but in 1955 the year I was to get out I   
   got a chance to get into the Navy's Nuclear Submarine program so stayed   
   in the Navy. In hind sight was about the smartest decision I ever made.   
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