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hasn’t narrated. These are for advanced listening
audiences, as many things you will hear will not be explained. But
many of these concepts have been explained in the production (narrated) tapes.
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Tape Number |
FLAC |
MP3 |
Year Recorded |
Description |
0164A |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
1975 |
212-923 panel (west 176th street
Manhattan); Manhattan intercept operator talking to friend;
Minneapolis AIS special announcement 97 (noisy); Bell System
answering machine in Long Beach repair bureau; Tennessee office
code (901-239) that works as direct access to Corinth MS toll
center |
0164B |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
1975 |
Hempstead #1 Crossbar; Lynbrook
#5 crossbar; Use of the South Hampton SD (repair service
diverter); sounds from within the Cabot, VT Contel step CDO, #1
Step in Barry, VT, Bell step CDO with new tones in Plainfield,
VT; Contel Step in Marshfield, VT. |
0695A |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
1976 |
790 Conference,
Talking on Hicksville's busy signal, Brooklyn Cumberland medical
center PBX buzzers, checking message rate status in Long Beach &
Huntington, sending NYC calls to Deer Park tandem |
0695B |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Early
1976 |
Sending NYC calls to
Deer Park tandem from Lynbrook #5 crossbar |
GBM02-3-05 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
May
1974 |
New York Telephone's
IDDD tone demonstration recordings |
GBM28-1-01 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Middle
to late 1975 |
Conversation with
Bill. New Garden City ESS. Westbury 997 Sickly sounding loop
checker test (moved to Garden City). Long Beach balance test
loop around. Deer Park 677 Official 33 Loop around (with Bill).
425 Broadstreet 1XB to Bronx Intercept. 5XB Inter marker group
call. Elaron and SD call diverters |
GBM28-2-02 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
Late
1975 or early 1976 |
Far Rockaway
Intercept Line with no ring trip device. Long Island Valley
Stream 5's 811 business office has been changed |
GBM28-3-03 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
Late 1975 or early 1976 |
Talking on 923
buzzer with Ben via Kingston 5XB Tandem to Borough tandem route |
GBM28-3-05 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
Late
1975 or early 1976 |
Calling Rhinebeck,
NY Vacant Level Recording
Test Number in Huntington, NY (disables trunk by accident),
Centralized Intercept in New Orleans, Huntington, NY old Repair
Service number with CDO ring leaking through |
GBM28-4-01 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
Late
1975 or early 1976 |
Calls from 887 to
Queens Sector, Code 830 being misrouted though Garden
City/Nassau 4A, Calling suping 212-395 vacant code recording on
Long Beach SD |
GBM28-4-02 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
Late
1975 or early 1976 |
Calling 914 area
from 887 (Lynbrook 5XB Marker Group 500) via N1 and N3 carrier
to White Plains Tandem 1. |
GBM28-4-03 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
October
1975 |
Hempstead and Glen
Cove SDs
One #5 Crossbar revertive pulsing to another
Bell System Newsline (digital vs. analog)
Vancouver operator training recording
Long Distance Calls - Jane Barbe recording, St. Thomas Ring,
Intercept tone and recording from Jamaica |
GBM41-1-01 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
August
1976 |
West 73rd street
Panel calling Hempstead SD and Deer Park ESS demonstrator
Old and new New York area 936 weather
New 936 intercept announcements
Calls to New York City via Deer Park crossbar tandem dialed on
Deer Park ESS demonstrator |
GBM41-1-02 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
August
1976 |
Gotham tandem
revertive pulsing to other crossbar tandems on the 212-487 5XB
demonstrator |
GBM41-2-01 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
October
1976 |
West 73rd street 5XB
calling Long Island via N1 carrier to Hempstead Tandem 1,
including 936 recordings |
GBM41-2-04 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
October
1976 |
750-2000 Step PBX
buzzer conference
West 73rd Street 660 * # conference
958 dialed via West 73rd street panel and #5XB lines |
GBM41-3-02 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
October
1976 |
West 73rd Street 5XB
to Hempstead Tandem 2 via combination N3 & T-carrier trunk to
various L.I. places |
GBM41-3-03 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
October
1976 |
5XB Demonstrator
Manhattan 628
New England Telephone Rate Quote System Touch Tone access |
GBM41-3-04 |
FLAC |
MP3 |
October
1976 |
Repeated calls to
NTL Phase 5 (charge test) called via many different routes |
GBM41-3-05 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
Part 1
Part 2 |
October
1976 |
Ben's MTL associated
loop-around demonstrated
Bell Harbor "ringing to reorder" (calling Ben's bridged lines)
Old Fashioned Coin Collect and Return Test Line (West 73rd
Street 660-6)
Dial speed Check line (West 73rd Street 660-02)
Strange 575/779 non working call diverter
Forwarding an official number to the MTL and getting ESS busy
flash
Ben's official callback number |