..."how waiting may become abnormal"...that's my focus today. Thank you for this. I still remember talking to the operator, the mother of a friend of mine, and getting caught up on all that was going on!
oh my gawd THE TELEPHONE. I have this exact phone I took off my grandparent's wall when I sold the house. I just couldn't leave it behind. All those memories of being a kid and listening in on the party line. I kept the phone number for years and just paid the bill not being able to discard it. 592-3132. When I finally cancelled it, the southwestern bell lady on the other end and I both had a little cry about it. Seriously, we both cried. Her for her own memories of letting go.
Your post on the telephone brought back two memories. I remember when the telephone first came to my rural area. Our number was 0360. It was a party line open to anyone who picked up their phone. There was little intimacy between a teenage boy and a teenage girl on the party line. The you may want to consider the once ubiquitous payphone. Early in my business career it was my last stop before boarding and my first stop on deplaning. Try to find one in an airport today. Another idea for a post is the progression of business communication. Telegraph-Printing telegraph-teletype-telex (networked teletypes-electronic terminals-email/Internet. Operating in multiple countries on every continent (except Antarctica) we depended on it. We installed our first fax machine to communicate with our operation in Korea. In six months, we rarely used the telex machines on which we had depended. In my over eight decades of life the greatest changes have come in the speed of communication, transportation, and computation. That suggests another topic for a post. The Texas Instruments Datamath (TI-2500) that first brought hand held calculators into American households, or the HP 12c which occupies a unique and almost mythic place in the history of handheld computing.
my grandfather had on of these calculators and was really proud of it. I remember being a kid and him calling me over and typing in 71077345, turning it upside down and asking me what it spelt. I was eight and looked hard at it and like magic I saw SHELL OIL.
He worked in the fields for EXXON and thought that was the funniest thing EVER.
..."how waiting may become abnormal"...that's my focus today. Thank you for this. I still remember talking to the operator, the mother of a friend of mine, and getting caught up on all that was going on!
Hard not to be just a bit nostalgic for a time when one had to work a little harder to connect.
oh my gawd THE TELEPHONE. I have this exact phone I took off my grandparent's wall when I sold the house. I just couldn't leave it behind. All those memories of being a kid and listening in on the party line. I kept the phone number for years and just paid the bill not being able to discard it. 592-3132. When I finally cancelled it, the southwestern bell lady on the other end and I both had a little cry about it. Seriously, we both cried. Her for her own memories of letting go.
Your post on the telephone brought back two memories. I remember when the telephone first came to my rural area. Our number was 0360. It was a party line open to anyone who picked up their phone. There was little intimacy between a teenage boy and a teenage girl on the party line. The you may want to consider the once ubiquitous payphone. Early in my business career it was my last stop before boarding and my first stop on deplaning. Try to find one in an airport today. Another idea for a post is the progression of business communication. Telegraph-Printing telegraph-teletype-telex (networked teletypes-electronic terminals-email/Internet. Operating in multiple countries on every continent (except Antarctica) we depended on it. We installed our first fax machine to communicate with our operation in Korea. In six months, we rarely used the telex machines on which we had depended. In my over eight decades of life the greatest changes have come in the speed of communication, transportation, and computation. That suggests another topic for a post. The Texas Instruments Datamath (TI-2500) that first brought hand held calculators into American households, or the HP 12c which occupies a unique and almost mythic place in the history of handheld computing.
my grandfather had on of these calculators and was really proud of it. I remember being a kid and him calling me over and typing in 71077345, turning it upside down and asking me what it spelt. I was eight and looked hard at it and like magic I saw SHELL OIL.
He worked in the fields for EXXON and thought that was the funniest thing EVER.
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