Dave Mc Mahan <mcmahan@netcom.com> (05/01/91)
I have been asked why standard desk top telephones have a cotton ball
stuffed into the handset. Unscrewing the earpiece (not the microphone)
gives access to this little wonder.
Why is it there?
Dave McMahan mcmahan@netcom.com {apple,amdahl,claris}!netcom!mcmahangd@cognos.uucp> (05/02/91)
mcmahan@netcom.com (Dave Mc Mahan) writes: > I have been asked why standard desk top telephones have a cotton ball > stuffed into the handset. Unscrewing the earpiece (not the microphone) > gives access to this little wonder. It's not that they put it there deliberately. It just kinda forms there. You know. Lint. Ear lint. :-) Gord Deinstadt gdeinstadt@geovision Gotta cut back on those Q-tips. [Moderator's Note: There's nothing like a good laugh to start off an issue of the Digest ... but later on in this issue a much more detailed explanation of coton balls and hadset types is presented. PAT]