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| Thread ID: 74005 | 2006-11-08 08:01:00 | Telephone Exchange locations | stu161204 (123) | PC World Chat |
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| 497503 | 2006-11-13 18:31:00 | I googled and found this for where I am: db.cosmos-eq.org GNS: Masterton, NZ Telephone Exchange Agency Number: 039D Latitude: -40.9500 Longitude: 175.6600 Includes a map, which is useless. Will have to see if I can pinpoint the lat+longitude on a street map. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 497504 | 2006-11-14 01:10:00 | It used to be that each exchange could handle 10000 (actually 9999) lines . More digits go ahead of those 4, to specify which exchange a particular line was connected to . That was for cabling and switching considerations . That limit probably doesn't apply with the new systems . . . instead of huge cables going into the basement there would be a few fibre optic cables . But I don't think there will even be only one big exchange in a city . . . an earthquake or fire could wipe the lot . :D Redundancy is quite important . (The St Albans exchange in Christchurch is in St Albans St . Exchanges used to be marked on some city maps, particularly the ones in the official "NZMS" series) . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 497505 | 2007-12-13 22:51:00 | I don't know why all the complaints about the list being incomplete. The poster specified that it is a wiki site, ie. user created and updated. If you know where an exchange is, add it! |
azzanz (9029) | ||
| 497506 | 2007-12-13 23:09:00 | Why dredge up this old post? Even knowing telephone exchange locations doesn't necessarily tell you where your ADSL was being supplied from. The Telecom cabinetisation plan will further change things as an area served by 1 old voice exchange ends up with maybe 4-6 or more remote cabinets instead. |
PaulD (232) | ||
| 497507 | 2007-12-14 12:26:00 | Well Papakura is missing & Manurewa (South Auckland) not too mention Pukekohe . Pakuranga is interesting I used to get off the bus stop just outside (Pakuranga Road) there and on across the road and never knew it was there . I used to work in the switch room at both Papakura & Manurewa they had British elctro-mechanical step by step exchanges you dialed into electrical relays that moved the switches, they were very technician demanding . When Telecom was sold off they were ripped out and replaced by modern computer exchanges and all the technicians were made redundant, but now we have new smart exchanges that does call diversion and other things . Someone told me they were sent off to Japan and melted down, it could be that part of your old car has a little part of NZ telephone exchange in it . Wellesley exchange had a rotary exchange the subscribes dialed into a register the switched where driven by electrical motors with a electrical clutch between each switch and the motor, as the switch rotating to get the right number it sent electrical pulses back to the register, when the register was happy with the right amount of pulse it got the clutch to disconnect the switch from the motor . We in NZ have 111 emergency number in the UK they used 999 any 999 number used in NZ would of been dialed up when there was a fault on the telephone line in wet weather with the old pulse dialing method . |
nrrrta (11415) | ||
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