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RayWPremium
join:2001-09-01
Layton, UT
kudos:1 | I like my old 501 black boat anchor phone My favorite phone is my old black rotary dial 1960 era telephone. Granted it does not do touch-tone, it is getting kinda ragged, but it does not die, it has very good sound, and it has no batteries.
I can see how the person in question would like it back, even to the point of paying the monthly 'rent'. I tried to keep another one long ago but it was against company policy, even though I had an unconfirmed report that pacbell was destroying the phones instead of letting people keep them after all those years of 'renting'.
I will not get involved in the rights or wrongs about the way the telephone companies do business (even though they are so arrogant that they did not believe they could be blue boxed until one of the mobs bought up the technology), but I remember keeping rotary from 1992 to 1999 at one place just because they wanted to charge me USD1.00/month + taxes and un-taxes to save them money by going to touch-tone (cheaper to buy a $12 switchable phone for sites that needed touch-tone).
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| Yup, RayW, you are the only one so far in the thread that sees the point I see in all of it. Leaving aside all the business and ethical issues being discussed so vigorously in the other posts, Ma Bell's old black rotary phones were built to last. They may not have been pretty, with personal ringtones and shaped like Minnie Mouse for the kid's room and all that, but damn, they worked. All the time.
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