smk@python.UUCP (S.Kuzyszyn) (06/11/85)
Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone? A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones for about $60, but I can't locate them now.
ntl@mhuxl.UUCP (LOVELETTE) (06/13/85)
> Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone? > A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones > for about $60, but I can't locate them now. Try Dick Capone in Basking Ridge, N.J. He sells all kinds of old telephones. He is and Eastern Airlines pilot and sells phones as a hobby. I think his tel is 201-221-0141.
tkoppel@udenva.UUCP (Ted Koppel) (06/17/85)
-->> Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone?
-->> A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones
-->> for about $60, but I can't locate them now.
Try ETCO Electronics Corp.
North Country Shopping Center
Route 9 N
Plattsburgh, NY 12901
Phone: 518-561-8700
They have had all sorts of used phone equipment for years and as
recently as Fall '84 were selling pay phones.
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Ted Koppel : University of Denver Penrose Library : 303-871-3429
{boulder, cires, cisden, denelcor, hao, nbires}!udenva!tkoppel
{bilanc, csm9a, elsi, koala}!udenva!tkoppelivester@cholula.UUCP (06/27/85)
>-->> Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone? >-->> A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones >-->> for about $60, but I can't locate them now. I am also looking for a used coin phone, but I missed the original posting. Could you please direct me to the originator (I can't find python) or mail any useful information that did not appear in followups. Thanks, Paul Ivester, ...uw-beaver!teltone!ivester
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (07/03/85)
> > >-->> Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone? > >-->> A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones > >-->> for about $60, but I can't locate them now. > > I am also looking for a used coin phone, but I missed the original > posting. Could you please direct me to the originator (I can't find > python) or mail any useful information that did not appear in followups. > > Thanks, Paul Ivester, ...uw-beaver!teltone!ivester Edmund Scientific has them. It's in their new catalog which is just full of crap that really isn't "them". Really, underwear ads in Edmund Scientific WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING, TOO? -Ron
wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) (07/09/85)
>> >-->> Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone? >> >-->> A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones >> >-->> for about $60, but I can't locate them now. If those of you wanting a coin phone want one that will actually *work* like a real coin phone -- that is, collect coins before it allows you to dial, screen for long distance, etc., and then you expect to collect the coins from the box yourself, I am afraid you will be disappointed. I believe that all the used "reconditioned" coin phones you find for sale in mail-order catalogs, etc., have been rewired so that they are really just ordinary phones in a coin-phone box. (I also believe that the coin box lock has been changed from the real telco lock, if it even locks anymore, so you can't use your key on telco phones out in the "real world".) I recall reading, not too many months ago, in a magazine for electronics-products dealers (I get several, so I am unsure which it was), that it is possible in some BOC areas to buy your own coin phone, but you then have to contract with the BOC for the software/operator support required, pay some ridiculous monthly fee, and then *share* the income you collect (or they collect -- not sure there) from that phone. It can pay for small store owners, whose coin phones are the neighborhood's telephones in poorer areas where many people don't have their own phones. It wouldn't pay for you to have one in your shared apartment, if that is what you have in mind. If anyone on the net has definitive info about this, and also about the restrictions and modification the telcos impose on sold older coin phones, please post the info. I think I'll mail a copy of this to the Telecom Digest, too, to solicit info there. Regards, Will Martin USENET: seismo!brl-bmd!wmartin or ARPA/MILNET: wmartin@almsa-1.ARPA
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (07/09/85)
> >> >-->> Does anyone out there know where I can purchase a coin phone? > >> >-->> A few years ago I remember some firm selling retired pay phones > >> >-->> for about $60, but I can't locate them now. > > If those of you wanting a coin phone want one that will actually > *work* like a real coin phone -- that is, collect coins before it > allows you to dial, screen for long distance, etc., and then you expect > to collect the coins from the box yourself, I am afraid you will be In addition, the smarts for coin operation is at the central office, not in the phone itself. All the phone does is verify the coins dropped and send the appropriate signals back to the remote end and then accept the signals that cause the coins to be sent to the box or returned to the user. -Ron
stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499) (07/11/85)
Here is the text of a magazine ad. I know nothing more about the
products than this.
TONK-A-PHONE - OWN YOUR OWN PAY PHONE
For local calls only. Toll restrictor prevents customers
from making long distance phone calls and operator assisted
calls. 25 cents per call...accepts quarters only. Simple
to install--just hang pay phone on wall using mounting
holes and plug cord into phone jack. Full one year
warranty. 93% of all pay phone calls placed are local
calls. Fantastic return on investment. 100% stainless
steel cabinet. Dealers/distributors inquiries invited.
American made. Manufactured by Tonk-A-Phone, Inc., PO Box
388, Spring Park, MN 55384 (612) 471-0126
========================================================
Good news!!! June 15, FCC approved registering
privately-owned long-distance pay telephones!!!
Now FCC Registered #D9WHK13748-CX-T
* For local and long distance calls
* Free emergency "911" capability
* Timed local calls
* Timed long-distance calls
* Touch tone
* Adjustable time on calls
* Works on standard business lines
* Capable with MCI, Sprint, etc.
* LED indicator lights displaying remaining time
* Free "800" call capability
* Time per coin accumulation
* Stainless steel construction
* Full one year warranty
[ address and phone number are the same ]
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Steve Vance
{dual,hplabs,intelca,nsc,proper}!qantel!stv
dual!qantel!stv@berkeley
Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA