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From: dave%westmark@uunet.uu.net (Dave Levenson)
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Subject: Re: Telephone Handset Receiver Elements
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Date: 27 Aug 90 11:37:17 GMT
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In article <11248@accuvax.nwu.edu>, kitty!larry@uunet.uu.net (Larry
Lippman) writes:

> BTW, when is the last time that anyone saw a 300-type telephone 
> set in service?

About ten minutes ago!  Where?  At AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany,
NJ!  They are hung on the wall, next to the house fire alarm boxes, at
most of the intersections of the corridors in the older sections of
the building.  Heavy-looking black rotary-dial wall sets with F-type
handsets.  I'm not sure who is supposed to use them, or under what
circumstances.  I think they are part of an old house-phone system
that pre-dates Centrex and pre-dates the walkie-talkies that are now
carried by the AT&T building maintenance and security forces.  Maybe
someone who works there can tell us why.  


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