BBC
BBC FXCD 10 Communications CD
1987
sounds

#    Title    Time    Info  
1 BT DOMESTIC TELEPHONES Statesman model, 10 rings and pick-up 0:35
2 Viscount model, 12 rings and pick-up 0:41
3 BT PAYPHONES (DIAL) Call dialled (9 digits) 0:22
4 Money inserted 0:07
5 Receiver replaced normally 0:10
6 Receiver replaced more forcefully 0:07
7 Telephone ringing in callbox 0:29
8 BT PAYPHONES (PUSH BUTTON) Money inserted and call made (9 digit... 0:17
9 Receiver replaced and coins returned 0:08
10 Telephone ringing in box 0:26
11 BT LINES AND TONES Dial payphone: Pips 0:20
12 Pushbutton payphone: pips heard when operator dialled, or teleph... 0:13
13 International line noise with metering pulses 1:03
14 S.T.D. line noise with faint crosstalk 1:03
15 Local line noise 1:02
16 BT ringing tones 0:33
17 P.A.B.X. ringing tones, phone answered 0:35
18 3 S.T.D. rings, phone answered with 'pip' 0:21
19 4. S.T.D. rings, phone answered with 'pip' 0:21
20 Called party rings off, S.T.D. line 0:09
21 Caller rings off, local line, with 35 dialling tone, useable sep... 0:47
22 Telephone engaged 0:39
23 Equipment (system) engaged 0:25
24 Number unobtainable 0:33
25 Group of dialling pulses from pushbutton telephone 0:16
26 BT EQUIPMENT AND EXCHANGES Crossbar electromechanical exchange (... 2:02
27 Strowger callmaker and line-tester, running 2:02
28 Strowger electromechanical exchange (1922 onward) 2:02
29 Telephone operators, Jackfield switchroom (1925 onward) with 999... 2:02
30 COMPUTERS, TELEX AND TYPEWRITERS Typing text into a computer 2:03
31 Disc drive operating 0:15
32 2 keystrokes and bleeps (signifying mistaken input) 0:08
33 Amstrad dot-matrix printer: print 1:43
34 Epson dot-matrix printer: switch-on and print 0:30
35 Juki daisywheel printer: switch-on and print 1:19
36 Olivetti Praxis 35 typewriter: switch-on 0:10
37 Olivetti: paragraph indent and type 1:25
38 Transtel teleprinters in news area 2:01
39 PRINTING MACHINERY AND COPIERS Rex stencil duplicator run by han... 0:57
40 Rex stencil duplicator run electrically 1:05
41 Small photocopier, dix copies made (1980 onward) 0:20
42 Large collimator/copier: start, run & stop (1975 onward) 2:18
43 Linotype machine, operator's prospective (1930 onward) 2:03
44 Linotype hall with proofing machines and metal cutters (1930 onw... 2:15
45 Cosser letterpress: cutters being adjusted (1935 onward) 1:37
46 Cosser letterpress: start, run and stop 2:04
47 Singlewidth web-offset press: run (1960 onward) 2:03
48 Doublewidth web-offset press: run (Goss-Metroliner): plates bein... 2:12
49 Doublewidth press: start, run and stop 4:09
50 POSTAL Automatic letter sorter: start, run, stop (1975 onward) 2:16
51 TIME SIGNALS G.T.S. (before January 1st, 1972) 0:14
52 G.T.S. (January 1st, 1972 onwards) 0:06
Total time 52:31