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Posted by Dyre Dan on Wed Nov 18 20:30:22 2015, in response to Re: Today is fifty years since the big northeast blackout, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Nov 18 19:00:19 2015. The phones themselves didn't require electricity from the grid. The switching equipment at the central office normally did, but it could also run for a limited time on batteries, or could run on the telco's own generators, is how I read it. |