[geeks] Every server room needs one of these...

[Michael Parson]

On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 06:59:22PM -0500, Mike Hebel wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Michael Parson wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 13, 2006 at 07:53:34AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>
>>> Found this link from a boingboing.net posting:
>>>
>>> http://www.boldoldphones.com/
>>>
>>> Rotary phones, reconditioned and guaranteed to work.
>>>
>>> As noted on the page, they will work in a power outage, since they
>>> don't require any local power supplies. ALso mentioned, portable
>>> rotary phones (cellular guts in a desktop phone:
>>>
>>> http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?cPath=96
>>>
>>> I may need a rotary black desk phone for my office...
>>
>> Or, if you want something cheaper, but similar effect:
>>
>> http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/electronic/7830/
>
> Some bizarre part of me now wants to connect something large and DEC to 
> the internet using that as an acoustic modem...  ;-)

I had the same thought when I first saw them.  Sadly, I lost my acoustic
coupler modem along with my ethernet vampire-tap during one of my moves.
:-(

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Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org