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It’s not bakelite but injection moulded and I could have sworn it was Swedish. Definitely not British. There are nuanced differences.
by jacobush 6y ago
It’s not bakelite but injection moulded and I could have sworn it was Swedish. Definitely not British. There are nuanced differences.
- Pinus 6y agoIt looks exactly like the Dialog (manufactured by Ericsson, or probably L. M. Ericsson at the time) that were ubiquitous in Sweden in the 70s and 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_Dialog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson_Dialog .
- jacobush 6y agoI guess it could have been exported there. LM Ericsson exported some things to behind the Iron Curtain. https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/statens-offentliga-utredningar/sou-2002-108-d2_GQB3108d2/html https://www.riksdagen.se/sv/dokument-lagar/dokument/statens-...
- usr1106 6y agoDefinitely not Swedish. While the design might be, the pulse coding was different than nearly anywhere else. In Sweden zero was first, usually it's last. https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon#/media/Fil%3ADialog_1966_grau.jpg https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefon#/media/Fil%3ADialog_... In some country I have seen reverse coding, i.e. increasing number dialled gave decreasing number of pulses. Maybe Norway??? Big endian vs. little endian is not something new that came with digital computers :) Edit: Only Oslo (different from the rest of Norway) and New Zealand had the inverted coding.
- jacobush 6y agoYeah... but since it inside a submarine I'm not sure one can generalize to what pulse codings and switchboards were in use internally. If the phone was for connecting the sub to landlines, sure, otherwise, who knows?