My father used to work for Western Electric which was a part of AT&T each phone had a ringer in it that they counted in your bill and you leased the phones. My

My father used to work for Western Electric which was a part of AT&T each phone had a ringer in it that they counted in your bill and you leased the phones. My father brought back the extra stuff he worked with for me to tinker with. He worked on Bell Labs 1ESS and up minicomputers as switches. He would remove the ringer from a few of our phones so we wouldn't get charged for them. Remember that the Princess phone had a rotary dial and not a touch-tone, which came later on. I am Generation-X I grew up with the rotary phones and when I was a teenager the touch tones we used.