And *none* of them are as robust as the Western Electric phones. Some improvement.
Jim
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
>
>
> Heh, I'm 30 and remember when there was ONE style
> of phone available, supplied by "Ma Bell". They
> had about 3 colors to choose from. They were rented,
> not sold. Eventually, if you wanted, you could
> buy your own phones, but they still had the same old
> Ma Bell supplied innards. Finally the companies
> that wanted to make their own complete phones got
> the government to make the telcos allow equipment
> not supplied by them to be connected to the phone
> system. Of course that all happened in the 1970's
> before you were born. ;) When that change happened,
> magazines like Popular Science ran articles on all
> the neat custom phones you could now buy.
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