Centrex
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You may think of the ROLM Phone as some sort of pre-historic telecommunication contraption, but you'd be mistaken. That title goes to Centrex, a phone so advanced that it features "light-up pushbuttons to switch among lines".[1]
Lamentation for Centrex
On Fall Orgo Night, 1988, shortly after it was replaced by ROLM, CUMB sung this lamentation for the Centrex:
- A long, long time ago
- I can still remember how that CENTREX used to make me smile,
- And I knew if I had my way,
- I'd still have my answering machine today,
- And then I could be happy when I dialed
- But the ROLM lady made me shiver
- With every message I'd deliver
- Bad news came this fall
- I couldn't get one more call
- I can't remember if I cried
- When I read that damn contraption's guide
- But something touched me deep inside
- The day the CENTREX died
- (CHORUS)
- And we were singing . . .
- Bye, bye my old CENTREX phone line
- Why the hell do we have ROLM when that old system was fine
- For that amount of money at Lutece we could dine
- Of the Apocolypse this must be a sign
- Of the Apocolypse this must be a sign[2]