Telephony switches - is there anyone out there collecting these?

JP Hindin wrote: I was offered an old, old Strowger switch from a small indy telco once when they upgraded to a Siemens electronic PBX. Would have got all the spares, too. My apartment wasn't big enough, though. Besides, there was a noise ordinance. I hear they are worth quite a bit as collectibles, now, like 14-inch Winchesters and core planes. (still kicking meself for that!) But I do have enough room for a 5E now! Seems like I'm always being offered stuff when I either have no way to get it or no place to put it, like that Sikorsky airframe, or those Hiller airframes when Hiller closed down in San Carlos or that surplus tank and DUKW headed to the junkyard, etc. <sigh> Could have been the only kid in the neighbourhood--in town, even, with helicopters and a tank in his back yard. == jd If a putt passes over the hole without dropping, it is deemed to have dropped. The law of gravity holds that any object attempting to maintain a position in the atmosphere without something to support it must drop. The law of gravity supersedes the law of golf. -- Donald A. Metz