I can’t help but wonder how long it will be before the movie title “Dial M for Murder” becomes mysterious to most of the population. After all, who has seen a dial phone lately? Sure, there are a few ...

I worked a number of years ago, in the '70s, for a large telephony manufacturer. When I joined the firm we were shipping the last Strowger Switch CO (Central Office) out the door and just starting to ...

Telephones got their start in the late nineteenth century, connected through exchanges. In the early twentieth century, however, Bell introduced a new dial system, and needed to tell callers how to ...