>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.
Showing you age there. :) Of course I show my age, 32, when I
remember going to Safeway and checking your TV's tubes in the tube
checker. The 70s what an interesting decade, Vietnam, disco, Jimmy
Carter, and the change in TVs from black and white to color and from
tubes to solid state. My era is the Reagan era, the 80s, home to
parachute pants and the CD. Nope, nostaglia doesn't work for me. lol
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