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United Kingdom Telephone Services and Products

“Looking things up”

Online directory enquiries, postodes, etc. links moved to People and Places | Businesses

• OFTEL STD Code Database This comes as a zipped file which include all the UK codes; the main one has 84,000 entries, so it takes a while to load into a database. Most spreadsheets won't load that many records. See “Looking things up” for online searchable database
• Telephone Charges Comparison
• BT's Martelsham Heath Portal
• UK - Adrian Savage Telephone Information Service
• Quadrant
• NYNEX CableComs, UK

Phone Phreaking and Technical Info

The following files are presented for academic information only and are not an endorsement of any criminal activity.

• Telephony (html, 83 KB, UK) Excerpt from Herbert & Procter’s book
• UK Phone Freaking (text, UK) and UK Phone Freaking 98 (text, UK) telephone system information
• Answerphones (text, US) hacking into Answering Machines
• BT Basics (html, UK) Pharlin J Hack's guide to UK phone system
• BT Wiring Cabinets (text, UK) Info about those big green boxes in the street and the naughty things some people do with them
• Phoneboxes (text, UK) Does exactly what it says in the link!
• Phone Freak Files pk1.zip, pk2.zip, pk3.zip, pk4.zip, pk5.zip, pk6.zip (zipped text, US and UK) Information on phone freaking from archives. Part 3 has most UK relevance.
• BT Customer Services Information (text, UK) Story on how BT Customer Services information about government and defence phone lines was obtained. Slightly frightening!
• Telephone Guide 1 and Telephone Guide 2 (text, UK) Guides to phone service and switching

External Links

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• Telephone Technology Page NEW 2001
• TLC Technical pages NEW 2001 Electrical and telephone dealer with useful technical info on telephone systems including Panasonic 206 and 824.

Manufacturers and Dealers Links

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• UK Phone Socket wiring
• Austin Taylor manufacturers of Lineboxes and sockets
• Viking Electronics (US) phone bits and bobs
• Gai-Tronics environmentally-protected phones
• Rocom Robert Old Communications, phone dealers/wholesalers (they do multipair and exterior jel-filled cables in small(ish) reel sizes if you hunt thru the site)
• Wadsworth cabling/networks, cumbersome online catalogue
• TMI (Glasgow) NEW 2001 phones and cables, exterior cables, accessories
• Phoneshop UK UK mail-oder dealers, phones and a couple of small systems
• Anchor Surplus government surplus — electronic, technical, sometimes telecomms
• Commtec Comms cabling, etc
• Tait Components
• Storacall answering attachments, call centre, auto attendants, etc NEW 2001
• TLC NEW 2001 Electrical and telephone dealer. Stocks internal bell 50E and Besson external tonecaller.

Phonecards

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Computers

External Links

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• Caitlin and Ian’s Web Site— useful computer links

History

• Microprocessor History 234 KB
• Atari ST memories from the late 1980s

External Links

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• VAX Help In Memoriam VAXA and VAXB at Stirling Uni. Six Whole Megabtyes of RAM on VAXA! Wow! And we were so grateful to get a logon prompt in less than three minutes.
• CPU History
• Virtual Museum of Computing
• Obsolete Computer Museum NEW 2001
• Recent Computer Architects
• Chronology of Events in the History of Microcomputers

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