Chinese toy

Joseph Bento joseph at kirtland.com
Thu Jan 9 17:56:24 CST 2014


On 1/9/2014 4:43 PM, Richard O'Neill wrote:
> On 1/9/2014 6:22 PM, Phil wrote:
>> I've seen hand-cranked smart phones.
>
>  And I'm old enough to remember using a wood cased hand crank phone at 
> my Grandfather's farm. It was a party line and folks would sometimes 
> listen in.
> Later, after moving to a small town, one simply lifted the handset and 
> asked an operator to connect us to a three digit number.
> One day my much younger brother told an operator he wanted to speak to 
> his grandmother. She connected him. Oh, the good old days. ;-)
>
> Richard
> _______________________________________________

Richard, you're showing your age!  :-)

Joe, N6DGY



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