Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!mips!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Take Issue With Moderator Buying Radio Shack Phones Message-ID: Date: 21 Mar 91 22:47:03 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: I.E.C.C. Lines: 16 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 6 of 10 I guess you haven't looked at a genuine AT&T Touch-tone phone lately. The model 100s, the current basic wall and desk sets, are now lightweight electronic sets made in Asia that neither look nor feel very much like the 500 sets we all know and love. The Rat-Shack phones these days are a lot closer to the feel of the old WECO instruments. "Genuine Bell" now encompasses any piece of junk resold by any of the baby Bells, including such items as shoe-shaped phones and piano-shaped phones where the piano keyboard is the dial. Genuine, my eye. Regards, John Levine, johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us, {spdcc|ima|world}!iecc!johnl