Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!hayes.ims.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: nol2105%dsacg2.dsac.dla.mil@dsac.dla.mil (Robert E. Zabloudil) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Whatever Happened to the Telephone Pioneers? Message-ID: <13941@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 23 Oct 90 13:27:35 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Defense Logistics Agency Systems Automation Center, Columbus Lines: 25 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 756, Message 10 of 12 In article <13612@accuvax.nwu.edu> Jim Haynes writes: >I got to wondering what happened to the Telephone Pioneers >organization after the great Bell System breakup. They're still around in Columbus, it would seem. My wife had one of the good old volume-control handsets, since we're hard of hearing. The local PhoneCenter stores are selling them off (and may have already done so), and the 'new' phones just don't do the job quite as well. One day, my son (old enough to know better!) decided to take it apart to see how it worked. In short: he practically trashed it, my wife was devastated, and we somehow got it fixed by a telephone pioneer (either gratis or for a whole lot less than a new handset would have cost, if they were even obtainable. As a side note, she had to give up a promotion with her employer because they could not get a good volume-control phone to work with their el-cheapo system. One advantage of the good old days, I guess. So we are grateful to those old-timers. Hope the Pioneers stay active for a long time. Thanks! Bob Zabloudil Opinions strictly my own, of course.