Hi Roland, 
On 17 Jan'98, at 10:40, in a message to Dave Garland, you wrote this 
about "PHONE LINES": 
 RS> DG>Not sure.  I've seen old phones where
 RS> DG> >2 wires were connected.  I
 RS>   >assume it was some sort of ringer
 RS>   > selector, so you could ring some
 RS>   >phones but not others on the same
 RS>   > line, but you really need someone
 RS>   >who knows more then me about old-time 
 RS>   > telephones to answer this one. 
 RS>   >This is all from the days of 
 RS>   > hard-wired telephones, before any kind 
 RS>   >of jacks. 
 RS> 
 RS> I did some asking around and one person 
 RS> told me he thought the additional 
 RS> two wires used the voltages to light the key pad of the first 
 RS> "princess" phones. 
Exactly. The transformer was a little 1.5-inch square unit that plugged 
into the AC receptical, and the secondary side was the yellow & black 
that fed into the phone to light the keypad to the Princess & Trimline 
phones. Since those type of phones are rarely in use anymore, the Y&B 
pair is no longer used as a power line and is used for an additional 
phone line. 
Ray Madison 
70661.2471@compuserve.com 
madisonr@auhs.edu 
U.S.A. 
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