25 Aug
2013
25 Aug
'13
3:47 p.m.
On 08/25/2013 03:24 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Jules Richardson wrote:
Got one hanging in my shop--has been there for a very long time.
Sadly, it is not equipped with an illuminated dial--that required an
external transformer supply. Got a touch-tone model in the kitchen,
again, without illuminated dial.
The Ericsson Ericofon held a special fascination with me, although I
couldn't figure out how one could fit into an acoustic modem coupler.
UK telephones always seemed to me to be very much on the "clunky" end of
the "cool phone" scale.
--Chuck
Goes with the territory, I suppose :) I picked up
a nice little desktop
Stromberg-Carlson the other day which has a smaller-than-usual rotary dial
mounted in the handset itself (I've only ever seen rotaries in the base
portion of desktops before; I'd always assumed that manufacturers only put
the dialing in the handset once they'd gone to buttons/DTMF, which took up
less space)
Even the "Trimline" was available rotary dial.