(January 8, 2019 at 6:27 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(January 7, 2019 at 1:06 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Pay close attention to Cheryl Ladd's character in the opening of Charlie's Angles. Yep, that is how telephone switchboards used to work.
But not at that time. Automatic switching was ubiquitous then.
You'd be surprised how many companies/businesses, as they still do today, still refuse to update or adapt because of costs.
It would not surprise me if places were still using manual switchboards even in the 1970s, maybe not many, but still.