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- Telephone automation systems, called "switches" or switchboards, were likely among the first electromechanical devices to implement a primitive form of computer-like memory, whereby a number is stored by the setting of relays, or the operation of similar equipment. The earliest form of switching memory was the [[Strowger switch]], developed by an independent American inventor decades before [[Bell Laboratories]] invented an equivalent technology. Strowger switches completed an additional segment of a phone call's connection each time a digit was dialed; in this case, the entire telephone system was the memory. Later switchboards (1960's generation) used general-purpose computers and completely stored all digits of the dialed number in a [[register]] before making a [[routing decision]] based on a host of complex factors. Call connections were made "all at once" after running a program that analyzed the dialed number. + Telephone automation systems, called "switches" or switchboards, were likely among the first electromechanical devices to implement a primitive form of computer-like memory, whereby a number is stored by the setting of relays, or the operation of similar equipment. The earliest form of switching memory was the [[Strowger switch]], developed by an independent American inventor decades before [[Bell Laboratories]] invented an equivalent technology. Strowger switches completed an additional segment of a phone call's connection each time a digit was dialed; in this case, the entire telephone system was the memory. Strowger eliminated the need for intervention by a human operation when placing a phone call (in consumer terms, he "invented the dial telephone"). Later switchboards (1960's generation) used general-purpose computers and completely stored all digits of the dialed number in a [[register]] before making a [[routing decision]] based on a host of complex factors. Call connections were made "all at once" after running a program that analyzed the dialed number. | - Telephone automation systems, called "switches" or switchboards, were likely among the first electromechanical devices to implement a primitive form of computer-like memory, whereby a number is stored by the setting of relays, or the operation of similar equipment. The earliest form of switching memory was the [[Strowger switch]], developed by an independent American inventor decades before [[Bell Laboratories]] invented an equivalent technology. Strowger switches completed an additional segment of a phone call's connection each time a digit was dialed; in this case, the entire telephone system was the memory. Later switchboards (1960's generation) used general-purpose computers and completely stored all digits of the dialed number in a [[register]] before making a [[routing decision]] based on a host of complex factors. Call connections were made "all at once" after running a program that analyzed the dialed number. + Telephone automation systems, called "switches" or switchboards, were likely among the first electromechanical devices to implement a primitive form of computer-like memory, whereby a number is stored by the setting of relays, or the operation of similar equipment. The earliest form of switching memory was the [[Strowger switch]], developed by an independent American inventor decades before [[Bell Laboratories]] invented an equivalent technology. Strowger switches completed an additional segment of a phone call's connection each time a digit was dialed; in this case, the entire telephone system was the memory. Strowger eliminated the need for intervention by a human operation when placing a phone call (in consumer terms, he "invented the dial telephone"). Later switchboards (1960's generation) used general-purpose computers and completely stored all digits of the dialed number in a [[register]] before making a [[routing decision]] based on a host of complex factors. Call connections were made "all at once" after running a program that analyzed the dialed number. | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:58, 7 March 2024
This is where I work on pre-drafts and just try stuff out
I had a draft of Computer at User:Pat_Palmer/Computer.
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Strowger switch and telephone dialing (~1920)
- Telephone automation systems, called "switches" or switchboards, were likely among the first electromechanical devices to implement a primitive form of computer-like memory, whereby a number is stored by the setting of relays, or the operation of similar equipment. The earliest form of switching memory was the Strowger switch, developed by an independent American inventor decades before Bell Laboratories invented an equivalent technology. Strowger switches completed an additional segment of a phone call's connection each time a digit was dialed; in this case, the entire telephone system was the memory. Later switchboards (1960's generation) used general-purpose computers and completely stored all digits of the dialed number in a register before making a routing decision based on a host of complex factors. Call connections were made "all at once" after running a program that analyzed the dialed number. + Telephone automation systems, called "switches" or switchboards, were likely among the first electromechanical devices to implement a primitive form of computer-like memory, whereby a number is stored by the setting of relays, or the operation of similar equipment. The earliest form of switching memory was the Strowger switch, developed by an independent American inventor decades before Bell Laboratories invented an equivalent technology. Strowger switches completed an additional segment of a phone call's connection each time a digit was dialed; in this case, the entire telephone system was the memory. Strowger eliminated the need for intervention by a human operation when placing a phone call (in consumer terms, he "invented the dial telephone"). Later switchboards (1960's generation) used general-purpose computers and completely stored all digits of the dialed number in a register before making a routing decision based on a host of complex factors. Call connections were made "all at once" after running a program that analyzed the dialed number.
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