Word: dialing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOLLOW ME DOWN (271 pp.)-Shelby Foote-Dial...
WHRB moves down the dial today, from a frequency...
...first priority in current improvement and repair work is the change of dial position. The present frequency is "uncomfortably close" to that of several local stations. On the advice of the technical director of a Boston station, WHRB has chosen 550, a frequency comfortably clear of the professional networks. Equipment has been ordered, Minnich said, and the change will be made as soon as it arrives...
...larger switchboard had been installed on the top floor of Lehman Hall, but had to move to its present location because of vibrations from Square traffic on the higher floor. Increasing use of the University system led to installation of an automatic dial system in 1948. The shiny steel equipment and colored wires now occupy the room next to the switchboard, which employs four operators during the day and one at night. Besides calls to College buildings, users of the system can call graduate schools, Radcliffe and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology directly on University lines...
Neurotic Exchange. Bell Laboratories' Dr. Shannon has a similar story. During World War II, he says, one of the Manhattan dial exchanges (very similar to computers) was overloaded with work. It began to behave queerly, acting with an irrationality that disturbed the company. Flocks of engineers, sent to treat the patient, could find nothing organically wrong. After the war was over, the work load decreased. The ailing exchange recovered and is now entirely normal. Its trouble had been "functional": like other hard-driven war workers, it had suffered a nervous breakdown...