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Originally Posted by pussyluver
Didn't happen to work on No. 4 ESS did ya? Was an engineer about the time you'd have been doing that shit. Tell me you worked on step-by-step and I'll be impressed (with the age of the equipment)
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The 4 ESS was Bell Systems technology as I recall . . . I worked for GTE.
As far as step-by-step I won 1st or 2nd place in a science fair in the 7th grade by putting a selector switch on a piece of plywood and identifying the different parts and explaining how is worked in the putting a call through. This was in 1965 or 66, and DDD (Direct Distance Dialing) was still relatively new. I had large groups of people in front of my exhibit at all times.
My dad worked for GTE and used to take me into a switchroom all the time as a kid. His co-workers would ask if I was going to follow in his footsteps and I always said, "no way." Funny how things work.
As far as the switches I worked on, I had to look back thru my old resumes. They include: DMS-1, DMS-100, AE GTD-5, GTD-5 MXU, AE 2A and AE 2B (the 2A and 2B I seem to recall were made by AE)