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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 19:00:00 -0500
- From: Nigel Allen <nigel.allen@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Good But Cheap Used Telephones
- Message-ID: <telecom12.907.9@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Echo Beach
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 907, Message 9 of 11
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- If you want to buy an additional telephone that will survive being
- dropped a few times but which shouldn't cost too much, visit the less
- reputable consumer electronics stores in your community, and you may
- find some used phones that telephone companies have sold to a
- liquidator.
-
- I just bought a used Automatic Electric touch-tone desk telephone on
- Yonge Street in Toronto for $8.99 (Canadian) plus tax. Automatic
- Electric was the equipment manufacturing unit of GTE Corporation,
- which still operates regular and cellular telephone companies, but no
- longer manufactures telephones.
-
- It looks rather odd -- a bit like the deliberately ugly troll dolls
- that are selling well in toy stores this year -- because Automatic
- Electric chose not to copy the exterior design of Western Electric's
- model 2500 desk set. For a long time, Northern Telecom (formerly
- Northern Electric) manufactured model 500 and model 2500 phones
- apparently identical to those from Western Electric, and so did ITT.
- But for whatever reason, GTE chose a different design, with the
- handset rest a bit closer to the front of the phone, and a slight
- ridge on top of the handset.
-
- A used Northern Telecom touchtone phone with several speed dialling
- buttons was being sold for $16.99. Again, I suspect that a telephone
- company was liquidating its inventory of these.
-
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