How many of us are using vintage phones? I just bought this, it needs a jack but it looks cool, and the bottom is stamped Property USN.
Anyone have a reliable repair man or supply house for parts.
How many of us are using vintage phones? I just bought this, it needs a jack but it looks cool, and the bottom is stamped Property USN.
Anyone have a reliable repair man or supply house for parts.
That's not true, he never came anywhere near my tabloids!
oh boiled peanuts!
I run one of these in the kitchen:
Some kinds soul has even posted the schematics (though mine
are intact in the phone):
http://web.ukonline.co.uk/freshwater/siemensb/354.htm
Pretty much works out of the box with today's system.
Apparently they were made for the Canadian market and
are among the earliest phones made for long distance calling.
I believe I bought the line to the wall from here:
http://www.houseoftelephones.com/
Seemed like good guys.
Personally, I would never want to be a member of any group where you either have to wear a hat or you can’t wear a hat.
The portable's on the fritz.
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A sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth. - Fitzgerald
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Mine is the one you see here:
http://www.thegoldenera.net
All it takes for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke
we just disconnected our house phone because we both have cell phones and decided to switch to cable internet..so i've been thinkin about stickin an older rotary phone in the living room and bed room just for looks...could never force myself to sit on a phone with a cord for very long anyway!
frank
I'm too lazy to post a picture of it right now, but I have a late thirties Western Electric 202 with the wall mounted ringer box sitting on a table in the "library." Our house is small enough that I've turned off the ringers on the rest of the phones (all modern) and just use the dual bell ringer from the WE to alert us to incoming calls.
Cheers!
Ahhh, I've never been able to totally break the land line habit. I tend to look at cell phones as a necessary evil that only have utility when I can't get to a land line. That, and I've never liked the audio quaility. I can usually tell when I'm talking to someone who's on a cell because most of the time they either sound scratchy or they're "frying out" the mic because they're talking too loud (when they're not momentariily dropping out completely). You just can't beat copper wire for dependibility and signal quaility.Originally Posted by hotrod54chevy
we just disconnected our house phone because we both have cell phones and decided to switch to cable internet..so i've been thinkin about stickin an older rotary phone in the living room and bed room just for looks...could never force myself to sit on a phone with a cord for very long anyway!
frank
Then there's that whole etiquette thing that most people can't seem to wrap their brains around when out in public...
Sorry.
Cheers!
I have one like scotrace's. I used to use it as a phone but our newest house has only 1/2 of the phone jacks working. It is now ornamental but also useful for when the power goes out and we can't use the cordless.
The Wolf
Do rotary phones still dial out correctly on these new-fangled digital land lines?
I was hoping to find an old farmhouse phone with the two piece receiver (where you actually speak into the box while holding the receiving cone to your ear). Didn't put too much effort into the search, since I didn't think I'd be able to dial out on it.
Richard
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