January 2, 2008
The $300 phone I want
Sure, the iPhone is cool and I would love to have one. But guess what you can get for $100 less? A real rotary telephone from the 1940s:
Made in Sweden by the L.M. Ericsson Company, this hefty Bakelite phone was popular in Buenos Aires in the 1940s. Found in Argentina and restored by hand, vintage phone has all-new wiring, a new microphone, a real rotary dial, and an authentic ring. Plugs into a standard jack.
For the longest time, I've wanted a phone with a real rotary dial and a real ringing bell like the ones my family had when I was a small child. This one's even cooler because it's from Buenos Aires in the 1940s, but you can find plenty of cheaper ones, including some 1960s phones for as little as $140 and others for as little as $60. I didn't look very carefully, so I'm sure there are better deals out there, too. (If your lines are tone-only, you can apparently convert your old pulse phones.)
02 Jan 21:35 | Link | Category: Misc. Tidbits, Technology & Computing