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- 1Evan Doorbell's Vintage Phone Tapes Draw Renewed Attention▼Evan Doorbell's Phone Tapes – Brought to You by Telephone World
The archived recordings of Evan Doorbell, a hobbyist who documented the American telephone network on tape from the late 1960s onward, are being shared again via Telephone World's collection at evan-doorbell.com. The tapes capture dial tones, operator calls, calls to far-flung exchanges and other sounds of the old Bell System, and are prized by fans of telecommunications history and retro technology.