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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".<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/ssio.html</ref> | 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".<ref>http://www.columbia.edu/acis/history/ssio.html</ref> | ||
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| + | ==Lamentation for Centrex== | ||
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| + | On Fall [[Orgo Night]], [[1988]], shortly after it was replaced by ROLM, [[CUMB]] sung this lamentation for the Centrex: | ||
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| + | :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<ref>http://www.cumb.org/scripts.php?script=24438</ref> | ||
== References == | == References == | ||
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| − | [[Category: | + | [[Category:Telephone]] |
[[Category:History]] | [[Category:History]] | ||
Latest revision as of 23:32, 21 November 2012
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]
