-=> Quoting Roland Stiner to Dave Garland on PHONE LINES<=-
 BG>  Yellow is ground and black is for AC.. Explanation:  When the princess
This may have been true at one point.  These days, however, the codes are:
Cable       Pair         Tip        Ring(Ground)
----------- ----         -----      ------------
2 pairs       1          Green        Red
              2          Black        Yellow
4 pairs       1          White        Blue
              2          White        Orange
              3          White        Green
              4          White        Brown
(from: USWest Communications, "Telephone Inside Wiring Standards")
[interesting history snipped]
 BG>  This
 BG>  is how they can ring one phone or the other but not both on a two party
 BG>  line that shares one cable pair.
Then there were the party lines with 8 parties and coded rings.. "two short 
rings, pick it up, that's for us", "a long and a short, pick it up quietly 
and listen, that's for the scandalous Miz Parker".  When I was a kid, I had a 
high-impedance amplifier hooked up so I could listen in comfortably without 
the clicks and breathing noises that so often gave less techno-savvy 
listeners away :)
-Dave
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