telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (02/18/89)
The year was 1925. The Great Depression was still four years away. Peace and Prosperity and Wheeling and Dealing were still the order of the day. Right in the middle of the roaring '20s, the Bell System premiered its 1A key system. This miraculous invention consisted of phones joined to radical new hardware, which furnished line selection and luminous 'in-use' displays. (From TELECONNECT, February, 1989; a marvelous magazine which should be required reading for all telecommuications professionals.)