TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question

Re: Time Warner Digital Phone Question

Scott Dorsey (kludge@panix.com)
6 Jun 2007 11:23:11 -0400

Curtis R Anderson <gleepy@gleepy.net> wrote:

> I remember seeing in 1985 on TV some kind of thriller where the phone
> company technicians were tracing calls through a panel switch. I
> remember seeing the selector rod rise up as the technicians were
> scrambling to find the bad guy. This one was in color, if I remember
> correctly.

> I would spend time some years after that trying to find a VHS copy of
> that film to have, just to see that panel in action. Without knowing
> the name of the film, it was hard enough to try to find. And this was
> many years before I even heard of the Telecom Digest.

> Does anyone know the name of the film I'm thinking of?

Three Days of the Condor?

--scott

"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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