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The Connections Museum is a communications technology history museum in Georgetown, Seattle. It is owned and managed by the Telecommunications History Group. The museum was established in 1986 by former telecom employees. Although there are some other telephone museums in the United States, the Connections Museum is the only one to feature a large collection of working electromechanical central-office equipment—including the famous Panel Office from the early 1920s. (Full article...)
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The museum's CX 100 is originally from the Battleship California. It also served in the towns of Wilkeson and Lester, as well as Camp David and Camp Pigott in Monroe, Washington. Because the CX 100 does not have interoffice calling capability, it was only used as a private automatic exchange (PAX), community dial office (CDO), and private automatic branch exchange (PABX). (Full article...)