Paul.Schleck@iugate.unomaha.edu (Paul Schleck) (01/10/91)
Saw some made-for-TV movie the other night about a husband and wife CIA team. The most noticable prop at the "headquarters" were red and blue phones without dials. These would be nice to have as extension phones (no dials for kiddies to mess with) as well as interesting props (fool your neighbors into thinking you are a spook!). Anyone know a good source? I assume they are a dime a dozen? Please reply to this group or E-mail. Thanks. Paul W. Schleck pschleck@alf.unomaha.edu Ybbat (DRBBS) 8.9 v. 3.12 r.5 [1:285/27@fidonet] Neb. Inns of Court 402/593-1192 (1:285/27.0)
Dave_JOHNSTON%01%SRJC@odie.santarosa.edu (01/11/91)
In are recent issue Paul W. Schleck [pschleck@unomaha.edu] asked for sources for Dial-less red "hotline" phones. In my past life in the interconnect business I had a couple customers ask for those. The best source I found was a telephone refurbisher. They had the old wall and desk rotary phones available without the dial. The folks I used were ATRS in Sandpoint, Idaho, but a recent review of Telecom Gear didn't have their ad and I can't seem to locate their address or phone number. I would suggest you try a couple of the following: Eltas, Inc. +1 412 343 2500 Lippincott Industries +1 509 922 1783 R&R Refurbishing +1 800 323 8989 Telephone Outlet +1 800 782 9701 Shasta Refurbishers +1 916 244 4708 I haven't used any of them, but I would suspect that any of them could come up with what you need. Dave Johnston +1 707 527 4853 Santa Rosa Junior College Supervisor, Campus Data/Telecom 1501 Mendocino Ave. johnston@odie.SantaRosa.EDU Santa Rosa, CA 95401
das@cs.ucla.edu (David Smallberg) (01/14/91)
In article <15953@accuvax.nwu.edu> paul.schleck%inns@iugate. unomaha.edu writes: > ... The most noticable prop at the "headquarters" were red and >blue phones without dials. These would be nice to have as extension >phones (no dials for kiddies to mess with) ... Until they learn how to click out a number. (It's interesting how many people don't know you can do this: back when all UCLA phones were rotary dial, many secretaries were told to lock their phones with a little cylinder stuck in the "5" hole, so that no digit past 5 could be dialed. This was supposed to prevent one from making outgoing calls (you had to dial 9 first), but allowed calls to UCLA emergency (35, hence the reason for putting the lock in "5"). Of course, some people knew how to defeat this: it looked weird, what with seemingly random combinations of dialing (for digits 1 through 5) and clicking the switchhook (for 6 through 0). David Smallberg, das@cs.ucla.edu, ...!{uunet,ucbvax,rutgers}!cs.ucla.edu!das