Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: I Take Issue With Moderator Buying Radio Shack Phones Message-ID: Date: 23 Mar 91 15:53:42 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 233, Message 11 of 12 I suppose I should have clarified what I meant by "Genuine Bell" phones. I agree with most of you hypersensitive critics of such phones. What I actually meant by such terminology was the old Western Electric phones -- you know, the hard as rock, durable, nuclear bomb proof phones with the authentic Bell logo on them. Heck, my grandfather worked in the old Cicero, IL. Western Electric factory (remember THAT place, Pat, and its towering walls on Cermak?), and I can't forget the stuff he got for us years ago. Over 40 years he spent with them. It was a sad time when they called it quits! So, I know some of AT&T's phones, GE's phones, SW Bell's phones, etc. "ain't what they used to be." I simply miss the old days. Nothing wrong with a bit of nostalgia, now is there, folks? Randy Borow Rolling Meadows, IL.