Retro Telephone

[Drapoon]

We have a red one of these in the living room & a two tone green trill phone upstairs. Look great but a real pain in the ar$e when somebody leaves an answerphone mesaage & we have no way of pressing "1" to listen or deleting it so the answerphone "calls" us for a few days until it gets bored of trying!

 

[Neil]

Does it still work?

I didn't know pulse dialling would still work on digital lines / exchanges.

How does it connect? The ones we had at home when I was a kid had those really big / fat jack plugs.

 

[AR-CoolC]

We have a red one of these in the living room

Direct link to the bat cave?

 

[was8v]

Had one of these in our house when we moved in - the only phone it ever had!

Needed 2x microfilters on it or it would confuse the adsl.

Sold it on ebay when the novelty wore off!

 

[cyfa2809]

So you cant spin to 1 if needed for voice mail?

 

[misteroo]

It works perfectly..it has been converted with the right connector.

We still have several digital phones around the house, so we can still do the whole "press this number" thing!!!

Bit bloody loud when it rings though!!

:shock:

 

[Drapoon]

Ours have been converted - a chap who sells loads through Ebay lives locally to us so picked them up from him

They tend to "chirp" every now then when cars drive past our house!


comedy

 

[konatime]

 

[Neil]

The essential telephone for the Rover-75-driving-Daily-Mail-reading-discerning-man-of-a-certain-age...

 

[Huntso]

Type 711 Wallphone if i'm not mistaken

Fixed a few of them in my time especially when the slapdash fitters put them up with double sided tape instead of the T shaped bracket

The ones we had at home when I was a kid had those really big / fat jack plugs

Think you mean Jack Socket 95A

So much better whe you could actually mend phones rather than chuck them in the bin

One of my favourites was the commemorative Jubilee Phone in Balmoral Blue, came with a separate mounted bell unit and royal crest instead of the usual central label

Yes you guessed it i'm a telephone engineer from when BT was still the Post Office