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WHY TCI? | § |
 Telephone Collectors
International was
born 20 years ago. It was a group effort on the part of many
collectors who were looking for a new club with a different
focus. A
large percentage of
those who formed the club are alive and well today and are members of
both TCI and the original club.
TCI’s focus
is different in
that the education of its members is the primary goal. The monthly
newsletter contains
telephone and telephone related articles, many of which are
written by members
or reprinted from old journals and reference books. The organization
also
caters to switchers, those members who work or did work in telephone
switching offices and whose primary interest is switches, building and restoring
old
switches, and reading and writing articles on switching that appear in a
periodical known as Switchers’ Quarterly, published by TCI. TCI is also
unique in
that it offers an electronic membership where one or both newsletters
is provided
those members by
way of email, at a lower
annual membership
fee.
TCI
also sponsors an “open”
listserve where anyone interested in telephony can join over
800 others with
similar interests without having to join TCI. Many find once they
are involved in the day
to day listserve exchanges that TCI membership can provide
a number of
added advantages for a very reasonable annual fee.
The
TCI monthly newsletter,
SingingWires, is generally 12 pages in length and contains in addition to the
content stated above, members’ ads listing items for sale or
trade, and items
wanted to buy. The “E” version of the SW is also 12 pages, in
color, and includes as many as 10-30 or
more “bonus pages” that are not cost effective to
print. The
“E” version
is
also available to those who subscribe to the mailed version. The
Switchers’ Quarterly is published four times per year and is
also available on
line.
We
hope
you will consider TCI membership. You can learn much, much
more
about the
organization by clicking on this link to our website
(www.telephonecollectors.org).
You will find a huge amount of information available to you, especially what’s provided in the technical library. If you have any questions, e-mail them to me at |
