FOX News: FCC announces plans to upgrade century-old phone system

[Joseph Bento]

On 11/22/2013 5:32 PM, Richard O'Neill wrote:
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>  Perhaps in a few hundred years archeologists will excavate Ma Bell's 
> underground cables (their distant technological past) while they 
> marvel at the antiquity. They might even write papers on the subject, 
> if paper still exists. Surrounded by decades of collected books, that 
> thought almost makes me feel like a dinosaur.
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> Richard

All the while that old rotary dial Western Electric will continue to work.

Joe, N6DGY