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This Is My Glasgow<p>The Bell Telephone Exchange on Ingram Street in Glasgow. While dated 1937, it actually opened in 1936, and served eastern Central Glasgow. Before All-Figure Numbers was introduced in the 1960s, it used the extension BELL.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/telephoneexchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephoneexchange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowbuildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecturephotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecturephotography</span></a></p>
lpbkdotnet<p>My <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TelephoneExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TelephoneExchange</span></a> shed has gained a new friend… but they need a name!</p><p>Any suggestions?</p><p>Alliteration, puns (and boosts) very much welcome</p>
lpbkdotnet<p>You know it’s going well if I’ve had to get the diagrams out…</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/telephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/vintageTelephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintageTelephone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/vintagePhone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>vintagePhone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/strowger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strowger</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TelephoneExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TelephoneExchange</span></a></p>
lpbkdotnet<p>Is anyone able to lay their hands on a firmware image for a Samsung Ubigate IBG1004?</p><p>It’s an <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/isdn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>isdn</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/sip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>sip</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/telephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephone</span></a> gateway, and the one I’ve got seems to be corrupt and won’t decompress.</p><p>My usual haunts for firmware images are coming up blank.</p><p>The filename will be something like `iBG1004_Advanced_1.6.1.9.Z` - but I'm really not too fussy about the version number!</p><p>Please boost if you think you have followers that can help!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TelephoneExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TelephoneExchange</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/phoneExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phoneExchange</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PABX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PABX</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PBX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PBX</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/voip" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>voip</span></a></p>
lpbkdotnet<p>Welcome to the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TelephoneExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TelephoneExchange</span></a> shed my new beepyboopy friend!</p><p>This is a “GPO Modem 2B” - a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dialup</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/modem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modem</span></a>… phone line in, RS232 out at a whopping 300bps!</p><p>It’s all discrete components (no ICs here!) and beautifully built with all the diodes/resistors mounted on little plastic carriers.</p><p>The modulator, demodulator etc are on separate, pull-out cards</p><p>It’s a gorgeous chunk of engineering, that I’ll be carefully powering up over the next few weeks!</p><p>Thanks for the swap <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@anachrocomputer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>anachrocomputer</span></a></span></p>
This Is My Glasgow<p>The former Tradeston Telephone Exchange. Designed in a Neo-Baroque style, it was built around 1935. Due to changes in telecommunications technology, it became vacant in the 1970s, and despite a number of attempts to rejuvinate it over the years, it has lain pretty much abandoned and decaying ever since.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glasgow</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/architecture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>architecture</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/glasgowbuildings" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glasgowbuildings</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/telephoneexchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephoneexchange</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.scot/tags/tradeston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tradeston</span></a></p>
lpbkdotnet<p>Thought I’d give the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/strowger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strowger</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/telephoneExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephoneExchange</span></a> bit of a workout this evening.</p><p>I’ll be running it in a lot over the next couple of months to give any faults time to show themselves before <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/emfcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emfcamp</span></a></p><p>Tonight though, I ran 100 calls through it (25 per selector) and had 0 failures!</p><p>That’s not bad considering I haven’t run it over the winter!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/telephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phone</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/electroMechanical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>electroMechanical</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/relays" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>relays</span></a></p>
lpbkdotnet<p>Yay!</p><p>I’m taking a <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/strowger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>strowger</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/telephoneExchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephoneExchange</span></a> to <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/emf2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emf2024</span></a> </p><p>Now I just have to work out how to get it out of the shed!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/emf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emf</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/emfcamp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emfcamp</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/emfcamp2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emfcamp2024</span></a></p>
IT News<p>A Complete Exchange From Scratch For Your Rotary Dial Phones - Such has been the success of the mobile phone that in many places they have remove... - <a href="https://hackaday.com/2024/01/29/a-complete-exchange-from-scratch-for-your-rotary-dial-phones/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">hackaday.com/2024/01/29/a-comp</span><span class="invisible">lete-exchange-from-scratch-for-your-rotary-dial-phones/</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/telephoneexchange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telephoneexchange</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/phonehacks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>phonehacks</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/cons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cons</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/pots" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pots</span></a> <a href="https://schleuss.online/tags/slic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>slic</span></a></p>