Another vintage landline phone
[Posted Sunday, July 26, 2026 7/26/26 9:25 am]
I love vintage electronics from the 60s and 70s, especially telephones. This is another of the vintage telephones that I use on my working landline.
This telephone is more recent than some of the others in my collection, but it was made in 1977, which makes it almost 50 years old.
This dark red is my favorite Bell System telephone color, reminiscent of the President's cold war Kremlin hotline phone.
It's also the color of the Batphone.
Off the hook
[Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2026 7/22/26 10:15 am]
This is how we blocked people in the 1980s.
This is how we turned off call blocking.
The phone in these pictures is a Dutch T65 made in the 1970s in the Netherlands by Ericsson. The white button was used on some lines to transfer calls and for most users had no function.
Quote of the day: Paul McCartney
[Posted Saturday, July 18, 2026 7/18/26 7:55 am]
"My grandkids always beat me at Rock Band, and I say, 'You may beat me at Rock Band, but I made the original records, so shut up.'"
- Paul McCartney (NY Times, 2/13)
Telephones of the future
[Posted Tuesday, July 14, 2026 7/14/26 6:55 am]
This guy made some incredibly accurate predictions more than seventy years ago:
Pet Peeve: Cars not pulling up to stop line
[Posted Friday, July 10, 2026 7/10/26 9:45 am]
Near where I live, there's a left turn that I have to make every morning, and this left turn lane has an arrow signal.
The problem with this signal is if you don't pull up to the white line, you don't activate the sensor and the arrow signal NEVER turns green.
Invariably, I get stuck behind someone who's laying back on the intersection preventing anyone from making the left turn. I wish I knew why people do this.
These are the same people as the ones who don't know how to form a line at the counter inside McDonald's. They also hang back and ask you if you're in line.
When I stop at this left turn, I've gotten in the habit of leaving enough space between me and the car ahead, so I can exit the lane to the right and go through the intersection if I need to, bypassing the idiot blocking the left turn lane.
I know, I'm now hanging back just like the offending driver. But it's the only way to get around the car that's waiting for a light that's never going to change.
I hate it when people don't pull up to the line, especially at this left turn!
#PeaceAndLove
[Posted Tuesday, July 7, 2026 7/7/26 12:00 pm]
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