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Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout

Posted by AlM on Tue Nov 17 14:10:43 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Nov 17 13:21:44 2015.

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Simple single-line landline phones are directly powered over the pair of wires that comes from the phone company's central office to the home or office.

When I worked for Bell Labs I was told that pay phones were electrically very similar to regular single line home or business phones, with some obvious alterations.

But it's quite possible that some pay phones required Con Ed electricity, even back then. A modern pay phone with more features, like accepting credit cards, almost certainly requires Con Ed power.

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