For the old g*ts among us.
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Ooh! Sharp GF-8989E at 4:02. 
This is going up on boomboxery.com, TVM for that! 
Just the one slight flaw with the illustrations though
, that telephone wouldn't have had a 431A plug, if it had been equipped with a plug at all, it would have been a plan 4 type, like this one:
But most likely, it would be hard wired into the incoming end of the cable from the local telegraph pole. These were the days when the only broadband you'd have owned - or as was more usual, rented along with the rest of the outfit - was a cummerbund and Tux was what we called a particular type of suit, not the now familiar penguin icon.
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
Tux, is that really you? ;-)
Wow! Who'd have thought it. I never realised that the famous Antarctic-dwelling bird - recognised across the globe by people whose computers work properly and don't take hours to do stuff - is a forum member!
J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
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suffolkpete
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Not entirely correct. That type of plug was only permitted on extensions, there always had to be one phone hardwired in, you couldn't have an unterminated line. However, when the new type plug was introduced some phones were modified as shown in the illustration, with the new plug fitted and the bell capacitor removed.JPB wrote:
Just the one slight flaw with the illustrations though
1974 Rover 2200 SC
1982 Matra Murena 1.6
1982 Matra Murena 1.6
Re: For the old g*ts among us.
I knew that someone would know better when it came to that sort of thing, cheers Pete! J
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Understeer: when you hit the wall with the front of the car.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
Oversteer: when you hit the wall with the back of the car.
Horsepower: how fast you hit the wall.
Torque: how far you take the wall with you.
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Never fails to surprise me how forum threads can go in a completely different direction from the original subject.... 
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You are without question the Daddy of the geeks!suffolkpete wrote:Who's the uber-geek now?
UKJeeper wrote:Never fails to surprise me how forum threads can go in a completely different direction from the original subject....
I blame Terry, his mind is so wonderfully random. J
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..
"Home is where you park it", so the saying goes. That may yet come true..