Coin/Pay Telephones, Lines and Signaling

(last updated: 16-May-2015 09:31)
 

Technical Specifications

  1. Rural Electrification Administration Telephone Engineering and Construction Manual, Section 703, "Pay Station Services", Issue No. 3, January 1977.
     
  2. U.S. Independent Telephone Association (USITA)/AT&T meetings minutes for the following meetings-topics: 5-24, 9-24, 9-49, 10-35, 11-35, 16-35, 18-35, 18-49, 26-24, 31-17, 31-24, 31-35, 34-24, 36-24, 37-24, 37-31, 39-24, 40-24; NPL 7-9.
     
  3. "Paystation Services", L. L. Ruggles (Chief Telephone Engineer, Automatic Electric Company), pages 13-31, Automatic Electric Technical Journal (?), unknown issue date (probably late 1950's).
     
  4. LSSGR sections 6.2.9 (Coin Lines), 6.3.5.4 (Wink Signals), and 6.4.1.6 (Inband Coin Control and Ringback).
     
  5. LSSGR FSD 10-01-0000, Coin Service.
     
  6. LSSGR FSD 10-08-0000, Expanded Inband Signaling.
     
  7. LSSGR FSD 10-09-0000, Improved Public Telephone Service.
     
  8. Notes on Distance Dialing 1968, AT&T, Section 4, paragraphs 5.14 (Coin Denomination Tones), 5.15 (Coin Collect Tone), 5.16 (Coin Return Tone), and 6.04-6.05 (Coin Collect and Coin Return).
     
  9. Notes on Distance Dialing 1975, AT&T, Section 5, paragraphs 9.13-9.15 (Coin Tones), 10.06-10.11 (Ringback), 10.12-10.14 (Coin Collect and Coin Return), 10.15 (Inband Coin Control), and 10.16-10.17 (Multiple Wink Coin Control).
     
  10. Notes On The Network 1980, AT&T, Section 5, paragraph 11.20 (Coin Tones); Table T, items 11 (Deposit Coin Tone), 32 (Coin Denomination Tones), 33 (Coin Collect Tone), 34 (Coin Return Tone), 35 (Coin Return Test Tone); Table U, items 11 (Deposit Coin Tone), 32 (Coin Denomination Tones), 33 (Coin Collect Tone), 34 (Coin Return Tone), 35 (Coin Return Test Tone).
     
  11. Coin Crafts' Manual (Bell System), Issue 2, August 1978 (contains reprints of various Bell System Practices, and some original material).
     
  12. Bell System Practice 506-100-120, 1C/2C-Type Coin Telephone Set, Detailed Description.
     
  13. Bell System Practice xxx-xxx-xxx, 1D/2D-Type Coin Telephone Set, Detailed Description.
     
  14. Bell System Practice xxx-xxx-xxx, 1E-Type Coin Telephone Set, Detailed Description, Postpay Service - Theory of operation.
     
  15. Bell System Practice 506-100-130, Coin Test Line Circuit.
     
  16. Bell System Practice 506-101-101, Coin Telephone 1A1, Identification and Operation.
     
  17. Bell System Practice 506-410-402, 1D/2D Type Coin Telephone Sets - (DTF Only) - Installation, Conversion, Maintenance, and Connections, Issue 2, August 1980 (a Task Oriented Practice).
     
  18. AT&T Recommendation Letter RL-79-09-413, "Enablement of TOUCH-TONE Dials", September 28 1979, and attached notes.
     
  19. GTE Coin Telephone Handbook, CHB-130 (collection of various GTE Practices related to coin telephones).
     
  20. GTE Practice 476-002-200, Coin Telephone Coin Level Volume Sensor.
     
  21. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-201-100 (Issue 1, March 1963), Description - A.E. Co. Local Prepay Paystations.
     
  22. GTE Practice 476-201-100 (Issue 5, August 1978), Type 120A Single-Slot Coin Telephone Set, Description and Installation.
     
  23. GTE Practice 476-201-101, Type 120B Single-Slot Coin Telephone Set Description and Installation.
     
  24. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-202-100, Description - A.E. Co. Prepay Paystations.
     
  25. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-202-101, A.E. Co. Prepay Coin Telephone Sets Equipped With Single-Coil Coin Relay, Description.
     
  26. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-202-120, N.E. Co. Single-Coil Coin Relay, Description.
     
  27. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-202-520, N.E. Co. Single-Coil Coin Relay, Maintenance.
     
  28. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-202-700, Coin Telephone Set, A.E. Co. Prepay, Maintenance.
     
  29. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-203-100, Description, A.E. Co. Semi-Postpay Paystations.
     
  30. GTE Practice (General System Practice) 476-204-700, Coin Telephone Set, A.E. Co. Local Prepay, Maintenance.
     
  31. GTE Practice 476-209-100, Multislot Coin Telephone Set Totalizer.
     
  32. GTE Practice 997-260-800, Type 120A Single-Slot Coin Telephone Set, Shop Procedure.
     
  33. GTE Practice 997-260-801, Coin Telephone Set, Shop Procedure, Type 120A To Type 120B Conversion Instructions.
     
  34. GTE Practice 997-260-810, Type 120B Single-Slot Coin Telephone Set, Shop Procedure.
     
  35. Northern Electric Practice 506-3221-100, Coin Telephone Sets - "CENTURION", QSD200A, QSD201A, QSD2200A, and QSD2201A Types, Identification and Assembly of Parts, Installation, Maintenance and Connections.
     
  36. Northern Electric Practice 506-3221-200, "Centurion" Coin Telephone Sets, QSD400A and QSD2400A, Prepay, Identification and Installation.
     
  37. Northern Electric Practice 506-3221-290, "Centurion" Coin Telephone Sets, QSD400A and QSD2400A, Prepay, Installation Manual.
     
  38. Northern Electric Practice 506-3221-500, "Centurion" Coin Telephone Sets, QSD400A and QSD2400A, Prepay, Maintenance and Assembly of Parts.
     
  39. Northern Electric Practice 506-4001-200, "Centurion" Coin Telephone Sets, QSD401A and QSD2401A, Semipostpay, Identification and Installation.
     
  40. Northern Electric Practice 506-4001-290, "Centurion" Coin Telephone Sets, QSD401A and QSD2401A, Installation Manual.
     
  41. Northern Electric Practice 506-4001-500, "Centurion" Coin Telephone Sets, QSD401A and QSD2401A, Semipostpay, Maintenance and Assembly of Parts.
     
  42. "Operation of the QSD400A Type Prepay Coin Telephone", private paper, author unknown.
     
  43. Field Maintenance Manual, Teletek Model 103 Paystation.
     
  44. "Installation Instructions For The North Model N-103 Coin Telephone".
     
  45. "N103 Coin Telephone Circuit Description", North Electric Co., 662-822-121.
     
  46. "Installation Instructions, 552062 Local Prepay Adapter".
     
  47. CEECO "Single-Slot Coin Telephones".
     
  48. CEECO "Handbook of Installation and Maintenance - 200 Paystation".
     
  49. "CEECO 201 Paystation Handbook of Installation and Maintenance".
     
  50. "CEECO 202 Paystation Handbook of Installation and Maintenance".
     
  51. CEECO "Model 205 Coin Telephone Technical Manual".
     
  52. CEECO "Model 205 Coin Telephone Installation Manual".
     
  53. CEECO "Model 206 Paystation For Timed Service".
     
  54. Sales manual (brochure) for "SSC-3000 Single-Slot Coin Telephone", Seiscor Division of Seismograph Service Corporation (a subsidiary of Raytheon Company).
     
  55. SEISCOR Product Bulletin on SSC-3000 Public Coin Telephone.

Periodical Articles and Conference Papers

  1. "A New Coin-Disposal Mechanism For Pay Telephones", BLR Nov 1959 pgs 430-433.
     
  2. "A New Coin Telephone", BLR Dec 1959 pgs 464-467.
     
  3. "New Coin-Control and Ringing Techniques For End Offices", W.A. Lindbloom (Automatic Electric Laboratories) (paper presented at the AIEE 1962 Fall Meeting, Chicago, Illinois).
     
  4. "A Single-Slot Coin Telephone", BLR Jan 1966 pgs 20-22.
     
  5. "Improved Coin Telephone Provides Greater Range and Coin Handling Capability", AETJ Jan 1968.
     
  6. "No Dime Needed", BLR Oct 1969 pgs 293-296.
     
  7. "Coin-Operated Telephones and Emergency Calling", AETJ Oct 1969 pgs 318-323.
     
  8. "A Single-Slot Coin Telephone", AETJ Jan 1972 pgs 2-9.
     
  9. "A New Test Line For Coin Phones", BLR May 1972 pgs 151-154.
     
  10. "Understanding the Paystation - Types, Control, Terminology, Improvements (All In Simple English)", TE&M Jun 15 1972 pgs 54-60.
     
  11. "A Circuit That Stretches Coin Telephone Service", BLR Apr 1973 pgs 120-123.
     
  12. "Options For An Operating Company", Telesis Summer 1973 pg 34.
     
  13. "Experience Proves Coin Phones Must Be Tough", Telesis Summer 1973 pgs 35-36.
     
  14. "Clean Harmonious Design Serves Many Purposes", Telesis Summer 1973 pgs 36-38.
     
  15. "Engineering For Reduced Operating Costs", Telesis Summer 1973 pgs 39-42.
     
  16. "Automization of Coin Toll Calls and Upgrading the Coin Telephone Service of Single Slot Paystations", NTC'73 paper 10D.
     
  17. "Coin Operated Telephones: An Analysis and Appraisal of Existing Types Leading to a New Design Concept", EC 48:3 1973 pgs 260-268.
     
  18. "Improving Coin Service For Step-by-Step", BLR Feb 1974 pgs 41-45.
     
  19. "NT2000 Coin Telephone For Worldwide Direct Distance Dialing", EC 49:2 1974 pgs 144-148.
     
  20. "A Totalizer Kit For Multislot Coin Telephones", AETJ Jul 1974 pgs 145-146.
     
  21. "Dial Tone First Coin Service For Step-By-Step Offices", Telesis Summer 1975 pg 63.
     
  22. "NT2000 Coin Telephone Using Microprocessor Techniques", EC 52:3 1977 pgs 213-218.
     
  23. "Universal Coin Box Family", EC 54:1 1979 pgs 70-74.
     
  24. "Coin Handling Goes Electronic", BLR Apr 1979 pgs 94-98.
     
  25. "Automated Coin Toll Service: Overall Description and Operational Characteristics", BSTJ 58:6 Jul-Aug 1979 pgs 1207-1223.
     
  26. "Station Signaling and Announcement Subsystem: Hardware for Automated Coin Toll Service", BSTJ 58:6 Jul-Aug 1979 pgs 1225-1249.
     
  27. "Automated Coin Toll Service: Software", BSTJ 58:6 Jul-Aug 1979 pgs 1251-1290.
     
  28. "Automated Coin Toll Service: Human Factors Studies", BSTJ 58:6 Jul-Aug 1979 pgs 1291-1305.
     
  29. "New Custom Calling Services", BLR Jun 1980 pgs 174-180.
     
  30. "Handling Coin Toll Calls - Automatically", BLR Sep 1980 pgs 256-262.
     
  31. "Sensitivity Analysis of the 47A Signal", BSTJ 59:9 Nov 1980 pgs 1747-1750 and following.
     
  32. "Payphones In the Nineteen-Eighties", British Telecommunications Engineering, Vol. 1, Apr 1982 pgs 2-9.
     
  33. "Coin-Box Telephones", ER x:2 1983 pgs 73-79.
     
  34. "Card-Coin Telephone", JTR 25:3 Jul 1983 pgs 166-169.
     
  35. "Growing Up With Private Payphones", TE&M 92:11 Jun 1 1988 pgs 37-42.
     
  36. "A Bridge to the Future", TE&M 92:11 Jun 1 1988 pgs 52-57.
     
  37. "The Educated Payphone", TE&M 92:11 Jun 1 1988 pgs 63-70.
     
  38. "A Payphone Passage to Adventure", TE&M 92:11 Jun 1 1988 pgs 71-72.
     
  39. "The Marriage of Private and TelCo Payphones", TE&M 93:11 Jun 1 1989 pgs 29-31.
     
  40. "What's Inside Today's Payphones?", TE&M 93:11 Jun 1 1989 pgs 38-39.
     
  41. "New Pay Phones Hit the Street", Spectrum 27:5 May 1990 pgs 28-31.
     
  42. "Where to Place the 'Smarts'", TE&M 94:20 Oct 15 1990 pgs 48-50.
     
  43. "Payphones Evolve from Cash to Cards", TE&M 95:7 Apr 1 1991 pgs 55-57.