planned un-obsolescence

Bell System advertisement In my home, this adver­tise­ment takes on mul­ti­ple lev­els of irony. (Source: Bell Sys­tem Memo­r­ial)

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  1. rsw January 13, 2009

    Wow!  Where did you find that?  I need one for my office.

    We have bunches of those phones around because the ringers are induc­tive, which means they’re often where we see prob­lems pop­ping up.

    In other news regard­ing ancient telco equip­ment, the Wan­del and Golter­mann PCM4 remains the cen­ter­piece of SLIC testing.

  2. MRhé January 15, 2009

    Benoc still links to your old web­site. Thought you should know.

  3. KERaven January 15, 2009

    That phone is seri­ously sexy.  I have one of that model spe­cially dec­o­rated for the 1996 DNC in Chicago.

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