Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: oberman@rogue.llnl.gov Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Take Issue With Moderator Buying Radio Shack Phones Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 20:22:30 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 28 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 224, Message 3 of 10 In article , rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com writes: > Walk to Radio Shack and pick up a Touch-tone phone? I've never > been satisfied w/ anything less than a genuine Bell-made or AT&T-made > Touch-tone phone. I've had nothing but bad luck with those Radio > Shack, QT&T, etc. phones. Give me a REAL Touch-tone phone, with those > familiar beeps and boops, anyday. Who'd you think invented > "Touch-tone" anyway? Of course, it has fallen into everyday use, like > other corporate trademarks: xerox, etc. While Western Electric made very good equipment, some of the worst JUNK now on the market has "Genuine Bell" stamped all over it! So what is a REAL Touch-tone (sic) phone, anyway. The term Touch-Tone is now in the public domain, or so I've seen posted here. While I can't comment on Radio Shack phones, my favorites are GE phones. They feel good in the hand with no irritating edges, have a good keypad. Everything I want in a phone. I'd much rather have one of these than one of those things with the Bell logo on them! R. Kevin Oberman Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Internet: oberman@icdc.llnl.gov (415) 422-6955 Disclaimer: Don't take this too seriously. I just like to improve my typing and probably don't really know anything useful about anything.