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From: John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Redundancy/Survival
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 14:02:56 -0700
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On Wed, 27 May 2026 20:51:49 GMT
Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:

> > But that also requires that the handset is fully capable of
> > operating only with the line power.  
> 
> You mean like they all used to do?  I still have a couple around here
> somewhere.  Too bad our telco recently "upgraded" us to VoIP phones...

I think the implication was that, e.g., digital cordless handsets are
useless without power, even in a POTS setup - which *is* true, but that
was so all through the '90s - '00s and it was no great hassle to keep
an old Bakelite number in another room of the house or dig it outta the
closet in the event of an outage.