Comments by "Steven Gill" (@stevengill1736) on "The Rise of ATu0026T’s Monopoly" video.
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My good friend Scott had an older brother John, who worked for a SF bay area phone company for most of his life. I think when he started phone traffic still went through relays, although in the late 60s things were modernizing fast. He was a technician, so when they made the turnover to all-computet switched, routed and ring signal controlled, he was in his element. At that time unlike Scott (who became a renowned electronics engineer himself), I knew little about computers, but John was a good spokesperson, and his descriptions of the multitudinous snafus that came up as the phone company adapted to software driven communication were easily absorbed . Him and Scott already had a home computer (think 1975), and it was their influence, as well as my fathers that finally got me interested in the digital world. But I lost track of them, although I'll never forget the red boxes we had (red boxes just emitted the sounds of coins falling into a pay phone, unlike blue boxes which emitted routing and other control tones). Yup, a lot could be said about those phone phreak days...
But thank you for another interesting video - for some reason your videos often bring back fond memories [believe me, if I wasn't old and in the way I'd a joined your patreon long ago]
Cheers ..... ;^=[}
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