On 1/2/2013 7:08 PM, Ned Freed wrote:
Of course. However, we're talking about post-Carterphone here.
Carterphone was
1968, and I'm sure four pin plugs were in use by then.
Not in Los Angeles. As I recall, all the phone around there were
hardwired into the 70s.
Also keep in mind that AT&T fought the Carterphone decision for many years.
So it would seem...
I went to work at MCI in 1983, building MCI Mail. Our group was on M
street, near corporate HQ. One morning I got a call telling me to come
into work wearing sloppy clothes. (This was normally a 3-piece suit
place.) There had been a fire on the floor above, where the MCI
attorneys for the case against AT&T worked. Lots of water and smoke
damage. The claim was that the fire had burned, ummmmm... especially hot...
A line mod was probably against the rules irrespective of Carterphone in
those
days. But had you bought your own phone with a ringer switch and hooked
that
Not allowed at that point. All user equipment that was wired to the
system had to come from the phone company in L.A.
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