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I am a retired electrical engineer from the Telecommunications Industry. I started my career by installing dials into a Western Electric 302 telephones. The small telephone company I worked for, was converting the town over from the magneto telephones to rotary dial phones. Well I guess that pretty much dates me as to how old I am. Most of you probably don’t know what a magneto telephone is, well it is the type with a crank on the side that you turn to alert some one that you are calling. Our call signal was one long ring and 3 short rings. We could have up to 10 people on our party line.
When I retired from the telecommunications industry I was designing and fixing computer controlled Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) Private Branch Exchanges (PBX’s) that served small 100 lines, to large 10,000 lines businesses. These were all private lines.
In my spare time and when I was not traveling, I would refinish or refurbish the rooms in our home. I enjoy this type of remodeling and especially the wood work. Whether it is floors, cabinets or refurbishing an old buffet cabinet to it’s former brilliance. Now that I am retired I have made a web site www.ourhomeimprovement.net that shows a number of projects that we have completed, but I still love to design things and am always working on some project.
