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Thread Number: 75514
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Post# 993466 , Reply# 1 5/7/2018 at 20:58 (2,178 days old) by wayupnorth  (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Both my mother and I worked for the"phone" company. I have alot of the same phones and to be honest, unless you have regular "phone" service, they are useless. BUT a rotary dial always works in a power outage, connected to a regular line and adapter, like mine, which I reported a power outage today and power back on in half an hour. They are not worth much unless they are very unique to show off. Those phones are practically indestructible.
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Post# 993474 , Reply# 2 5/8/2018 at 00:36 (2,177 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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 I agree. The two white phones I would say are only worth a few bucks each. The rotary phone maybe $10 or $15.
I've provided a link to the Classic Rotary Phones forum. It's one of the better sites on this subject.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO RP2813's LINK | ||
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Post# 993497 , Reply# 3 5/8/2018 at 08:59 (2,177 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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What were the white ones called, "Slimline" or something like that. They were so modern in the 70s. | ||
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Post# 993559 , Reply# 6 5/8/2018 at 21:24 (2,176 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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I have a Trimline in brown with rotary dial, wall trimline in orange with touch tone, green rotary dial desk model. All have a very loud bell so you know when a scam call is coming. Check the Caller ID, yup scam, hit answer, wait 2 seconds and they are disconnected. I have more of those wall phones and desk phones but they only will work on real phone lines. Not really perks from working at the phone company but what was being trashed I saved. Hyacinth called hers a Slimline.
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Post# 993881 , Reply# 7 5/11/2018 at 14:23 (2,174 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.) |
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They will only work on real phone lines! | ||
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Post# 993888 , Reply# 8 5/11/2018 at 15:30 (2,174 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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Post# 993890 , Reply# 9 5/11/2018 at 15:52 (2,174 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.) |
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Tim
You are correct that these corded phones need to be plugged into an active jack in order to work.
I have Comcast Voice and I have the telephone signal backfed into my prewired phone jacks. All my corded phones work just fine when they alre plugged into any of the jacks in our home. And since our Comcast Gateway has a battery backup, the few times that the power has gone out the corded phones plugged into the jacks still work, as long as there is still a cable signal. Comcast Voice is great! I will never go back to AT&T! Eddie | ||
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