josephkk wrote:

On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 20:37:19 -0500, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


Wes Groleau wrote:

On 11-07-2012 17:34, Michael A. Terrell wrote:
Operators, 3i years ago? they must have still been a Strowger type
Central office if they were that out of date. My home town had it's
first generation ESS Central Office before that. It replaced some

I operated a pull-out-out-the-cord-and-plug-it-in switchboard for a few
days in 1973.


Not many were left by then.


On Navy ships in the late 1970s, we still had click-click-click rotating
stepper switches.


Strowger stepper.


http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR1YMkG7qiygjslORZGAFHqGQzJE-4-IEcMxudCY1Nftoo6TKolEKcXApy8

Mike that is an ordinary stepper, not a Strowger


That was what Google barfed up when i seacrched for Strowger, and I
haven't seen the real thing since the mid '60s.

Please see:

http://www.google.com/patents?id=PSh...page&q&f=false

?-)