Call Waiting wasn't available in 1984????

[TVFactFan]

watching a episode now and the youngest daughter is telling Katie to get off the phone so she can receive a call from Nell

I thought Call waiting was out by 1984 lol

[gidgetgrape]

According to Wikipedia, call waiting was introduced in the early 70s. I'm guessing that like most services, it was probably expensive and not widely available at first. Besides, waiting for a phone call is funnier.

[Smartboy]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

watching a episode now and the youngest daughter is telling Katie to get off the phone so she can receive a call from Nell

I thought Call waiting was out by 1984 lol

The first time that I knew people who had call-waiting was in 1986. I believe that it was installed in the house where I lived in 1987. I am not sure how long before that it existed. By the way, I do not remember that episode that you mentioned. Do you know what it's title is or what it is about?

[gidgetgrape]

Originally Posted by Smartboy

I believe that it was installed in the house where I lived in 1987.

I believe we got it in our house around that time too. I remember not liking it because at the time you couldn't tell who was the other caller was yet. If I was talking to a friend and someone called for my mom, I had to give up the phone.

[Smartboy]

Originally Posted by gidgetgrape

According to Wikipedia, call waiting was introduced in the early 70s. I'm guessing that like most services, it was probably expensive and not widely available at first. Besides, waiting for a phone call is funnier.

I find it amazing that your post response went up a minute before mine! I guess it shows that, in the same way that great minds think alike, they also post at the same time!

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by Smartboy

The first time that I knew people who had call-waiting was in 1986. I believe that it was installed in the house where I lived in 1987. I am not sure how long before that it existed. By the way, I do not remember that episode that you mentioned. Do you know what it's title is or what it is about?

Joey and Nell went to New Orleans and Samantha was waiting for a call

[Smartboy]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

Joey and Nell went to New Orleans and Samantha was waiting for a call

I remember that episode. Thank you for clearing it up for me!

[Wildchats]

Originally Posted by Smartboy

I remember that episode. Thank you for clearing it up for me!

I was surprised with how BIG the phone cords were back then. Just look at them on GAB! When Nell pulls the phone out of the outlet at the phone company...BIG THICK TUBING. I'd imagine at the end of that tubing was a little jack sticking out you could snap into the wall where the jack went for it.



In my household...well, my Nana taught my Mom to be like her. So at first, in the 1980s, my Nana still had a telephone that you had to rotate to dial the numbers. It was black, and then she changed it when it finally broke down in the early 1990s and got a push button one, but with a cord, not a cordless.


In my house, my parents had one rotary one that was red and old in the bedroom, one push button on on the wall in the kitchen, and one in the living room. We didn't get a cordless phone until summer of 1995, I believe. They were expensive, yet everyone had at least one in their house in the late 1980s and early 1990s.


So yeah, the Kanisky's probably wanted to save money or didn't want anything else but a phone. Today, nothing but cordless phones in my household, plus they are new models from the late 2000's which now display the number as you dial it on the screen, the older models from the early to mid 2000s and before that are strictly just cordless ones.


Also, we didn't have cable until 1994 which was pathetic. TV was much better at that time anyways on basic TV, but we should have gotten it years before because we had to us that dial to get rid of the static fuzz from channel to channel which completely sucked.

[Smartboy]

Originally Posted by Wildchats

I was surprised with how BIG the phone cords were back then. Just look at them on GAB! When Nell pulls the phone out of the outlet at the phone company...BIG THICK TUBING. I'd imagine at the end of that tubing was a little jack sticking out you could snap into the wall where the jack went for it.



In my household...well, my Nana taught my Mom to be like her. So at first, in the 1980s, my Nana still had a telephone that you had to rotate to dial the numbers. It was black, and then she changed it when it finally broke down in the early 1990s and got a push button one, but with a cord, not a cordless.


In my house, my parents had one rotary one that was red and old in the bedroom, one push button on on the wall in the kitchen, and one in the living room. We didn't get a cordless phone until summer of 1995, I believe. They were expensive, yet everyone had at least one in their house in the late 1980s and early 1990s.


So yeah, the Kanisky's probably wanted to save money or didn't want anything else but a phone. Today, nothing but cordless phones in my household, plus they are new models from the late 2000's which now display the number as you dial it on the screen, the older models from the early to mid 2000s and before that are strictly just cordless ones.


Also, we didn't have cable until 1994 which was pathetic. TV was much better at that time anyways on basic TV, but we should have gotten it years before because we had to us that dial to get rid of the static fuzz from channel to channel which completely sucked.

Just for fun, I am going to point out that the year that you got cable was the same year that the book "Fashionably Late" was published. I believe that this was the third novel by the late Olivia Goldsmith.

[FredScuttle]

Originally Posted by Wildchats

I was surprised with how BIG the phone cords were back then. Just look at them on GAB! When Nell pulls the phone out of the outlet at the phone company...BIG THICK TUBING. I'd imagine at the end of that tubing was a little jack sticking out you could snap into the wall where the jack went for it.

That's because Swackhammer probably had one of those multi-line phones. You had to have a pair (or 2? not sure) for each line in the phone. I think they probably used 25-pair cables, since that's a common cable size, so they were huge. Nowadays you'd have a digital phone system and just need a couple wires.

[gilligan fanatic]

My Grandparents still don't have call waiting, and their phone is always busy-lol

[TVFactFan]

Originally Posted by gilligan fanatic

My Grandparents still don't have call waiting, and their phone is always busy-lol

My great grandmother didn't like the call waiting feature because she felt it was rude to be talking someone and then all of a sudden click over and then tell the other person......"I need to take this call"


LOL

[gilligan fanatic]

Originally Posted by TVFactFan

My great grandmother didn't like the call waiting feature because she felt it was rude to be talking someone and then all of a sudden click over and then tell the other person......"I need to take this call"


LOL

I can understand that, it is a good point-lol