Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 27 Apr 91 00:51 PDT From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Comments on History of Telephone Apparatus Manufacturing Reply-To: John Higdon Message-ID: Organization: Green Hills and Cows Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 309, Message 2 of 12 Lines: 36 "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com> writes: > In fact, Dear Readers, ComDial remains the place you can still > buy a 500 or 2500 set with a STEEL baseplate, The recently-purchased 2500 set sitting next to me made by Cortelco in Corinth, MS, has a steel baseplate. It also has a standard mechanical ringer with TWO gongs. > And finally, the message for John Higdon: Pacific Telephone has > bought these beasts and should be starting installationa about now. > (Just thought you'd like the warning so you can convert to all GTE > FX's, John!) I had heard about these things, but had not for one moment considered that any real telco would buy or install them. But then, Pac*Bell is hardly a real telco so what else could be expected? My contacts at Pac*Bell have SWORN that the replacement for my 5XB will be a 5ESS, and that it will appear in time for the CLASS startup in October, and that CLASS WILL be offered. Too bad it is Friday night; there will be some phone calls made about this nightmare. Woe be unto any who have told me what I want to hear just to get this monkey of his back. As far as converting to GTE FX is concerned, I will have the phone removed first. Better to sit in isolation, listening to Beethoven and reading trade journals than to fight with GTE and what it passes off as "service". Near as I can tell, the GTD-5 is the GTE equivalent of the DCO, right? Just ask the Police/Fire departments in Los Gatos! John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !