BBC
SFX 010 Communications
1987
sound clip

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 BT Phone (statesman) 10 rings and pickup 0:37
2 BT Phone (viscount) 12 rings and pickup 0:43
3 BT Dial Payphone dial 0:25
4 BT Dial Payphone insert money 0:09
5 BT Dial Payphone replace receiver 0:08
6 BT Dial Payphone slam receiver 0:08
7 BT Dial Payphone callbox ringing 0:31
8 BT button payphone insert money, dial 0:19
9 BT button payphone, replace receiver, money returned 0:11
10 BT button payphone callbox ringing 0:29
11 BT dial payphone pips 0:23
12 BT pushbutton payphone pips 0:15
13 BT international line noise 1:06
14 BT STD line noise with crosstalk 1:06
15 BT local line noise 1:05
16 BT ringing tones 0:35
17 BT PABX ringing tones, phone answered 0:37
18 BT 3 STD rings, phone answered with pip 0:24
19 BT 4 STD rings, phone answered with pip 0:24
20 BT called party rings off, STD line 0:07
21 BT caller rings off, local line with 35 tone 0:49
22 BT engaged tone 0:41
23 BT equipment (system) engaged 0:27
24 BT number unobtainable 0:36
25 BT group of dialing pulses from phones 0:19
26 BT crossbar electromechanical exchange 2:04
27 BT strowger callmaker and line tester, running 2:05
28 BT strowger electromechanical exchange 2:05
29 BT telephone operators, jackfield switchroom 2:04
30 typing into computer 2:05
31 disk drive operating 0:18
32 2 keystrokes and bleeps (mistaken input) 0:06
33 dot matirx printer (amstrad) 1:45
34 dot matrix printer, switch on and print (epson) 0:32
35 daisywheel printer (juki) 1:21
36 typewriter, olivetti praxis 35, switch on 0:08
37 typewriter, olivetti paragraph indent and type 1:27
38 teleprinter, (transtel) in news area 2:03
39 duplicator, run by hand 0:59
40 duplicator, electric 1:07
41 photocopier, small, 6 copies 0:22
42 photocopier, large, collating, start, run, stop 2:21
43 linotype machine, operators perspective 2:06
44 linotype hall with proofing machines 2:18
45 letterpress, cutters being adjusted 1:39
46 letterpress, start, run, stop 2:05
47 web-offset press run (single width) 2:06
48 web-offset press (doublewidth) 2:15
49 web-offset press start, run, stop (doublewidth) 4:11
50 letter sorter automatic 2:19
51 Greenwich Time Signal (upto 31-12-1971) 0:17
52 Greenwich Time Signal (since 01-01-1972) 0:07
Total time 54:19