BBC, BBC FXCD 10 Communications CD - 52m 31s

Tracks & Durations

1. BT DOMESTIC TELEPHONES Statesman model, 10 rings and pick-up	0:34
2. Viscount model, 12 rings and pick-up	0:40
3. BT PAYPHONES (DIAL) Call dialled (9 digits)	0:21
4. Money inserted	0:06
5. Receiver replaced normally	0:09
6. Receiver replaced more forcefully	0:06
7. Telephone ringing in callbox	0:28
8. BT PAYPHONES (PUSH BUTTON) Money inserted and call made (9 digits)	0:16
9. Receiver replaced and coins returned	0:07
10. Telephone ringing in box	0:25
11. BT LINES AND TONES Dial payphone: Pips	0:19
12. Pushbutton payphone: pips heard when operator dialled, or telephone box called from outside	0:12
13. International line noise with metering pulses	1:02
14. S.T.D. line noise with faint crosstalk	1:02
15. Local line noise	1:01
16. BT ringing tones	0:32
17. P.A.B.X. ringing tones, phone answered	0:34
18. 3 S.T.D. rings, phone answered with 'pip'	0:20
19. 4. S.T.D. rings, phone answered with 'pip'	0:20
20. Called party rings off, S.T.D. line	0:08
21. Caller rings off, local line, with 35" dialling tone, useable separately	0:46
22. Telephone engaged	0:38
23. Equipment (system) engaged	0:24
24. Number unobtainable	0:32
25. Group of dialling pulses from pushbutton telephone	0:15
26. BT EQUIPMENT AND EXCHANGES Crossbar electromechanical exchange (1960 onward)	2:01
27. Strowger callmaker and line-tester, running	2:01
28. Strowger electromechanical exchange (1922 onward)	2:01
29. Telephone operators, Jackfield switchroom (1925 onward) with 999 alarm audible occasionally	2:01
30. COMPUTERS, TELEX AND TYPEWRITERS Typing text into a computer	2:02
31. Disc drive operating	0:14
32. 2 keystrokes and bleeps (signifying mistaken input)	0:07
33. Amstrad dot-matrix printer: print	1:42
34. Epson dot-matrix printer: switch-on and print	0:29
35. Juki daisywheel printer: switch-on and print	1:18
36. Olivetti Praxis 35 typewriter: switch-on	0:09
37. Olivetti: paragraph indent and type	1:24
38. Transtel teleprinters in news area	2:00
39. PRINTING MACHINERY AND COPIERS Rex stencil duplicator run by hand (1960 onward)	0:56
40. Rex stencil duplicator run electrically	1:04
41. Small photocopier, dix copies made (1980 onward)	0:19
42. Large collimator/copier: start, run & stop (1975 onward)	2:17
43. Linotype machine, operator's prospective (1930 onward)	2:02
44. Linotype hall with proofing machines and metal cutters (1930 onward)	2:14
45. Cosser letterpress: cutters being adjusted (1935 onward)	1:36
46. Cosser letterpress: start, run and stop	2:03
47. Singlewidth web-offset press: run (1960 onward)	2:02
48. Doublewidth web-offset press: run (Goss-Metroliner): plates being adjusted (1980 onward)	2:11
49. Doublewidth press: start, run and stop	4:08
50. POSTAL Automatic letter sorter: start, run, stop (1975 onward)	2:15
51. TIME SIGNALS G.T.S. (before January 1st, 1972)	0:07
52. G.T.S. (January 1st, 1972 onwards)	0:05

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