Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Older Hardware Still Works Date: 14 Aug 2025 04:14:19 GMT Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <4vecnYdHDPuMwwT1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> <91umQ.65737$Rnw6.13108@fx48.iad> <2GydnVfsH7_51QD1nZ2dnZfqn_idnZ2d@giganews.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net QhFB3pzasCwcbZ9w/WPx8weXFEzkJATbdh6kvsA426gkwA/Ukp Cancel-Lock: sha1:LQ+W+03wbKtyD/yyd/6nRzIrFlc= sha256:9UKv85QVBZNgPTaWTZOfjZ0SZwl0RQGM4ApHzOz0G0c= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:70990 On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:22:27 -0400, c186282 wrote: > Big, black, steel and Bakelite - could smash in someone's head with > it if need be : I really miss those phones that had handy little hammers attached with a curly cord. After a fraught conversation with my wife I made full use of the feature. The next morning I took the remains to the front desk of the motel and said 'It fell off the night stand'. She and I have gotten old and our phone conversations no longer result in destruction although I gather her iPhone has a cracked screen and is on its last legs. Back when Ma Bell owned the equipment I took mine back to the phone store. It was perfectly fine but I'd gotten tired of basic black and gave it a face lift with some acrylics I had laying around. They just shrugged.