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Adventures in Locating a Missing Phone Handset

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KanawhaCountyWX

Context: the first part of this was a video I filmed on my phone to share with some sighted friends on Discord. I needed to emboss a document on my embosser (circa 1995 Juliet Brailler), and I had to move stuff from atop the lid (small LCD monitor, cordless phone base, stack of paper, spindle of blank CDs.) However, when moving the phone, the handset fell off the bass unit and fell inside of the 18U open frame server rack my Juliet sits on top of.

The phone is part of a PBX system used by folks that run similar internet radio stations to mine (and are part of the same group.) I have the phone near my desk on an ATA, and I have the GroundWire app on my Pixel with a seperate extention number that people can call.

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8 responses to “Adventures in Locating a Missing Phone Handset”

  1. Landon205 Avatar
    Landon205

    That’s good that you still have that one. Why doesn’t the other one do that?

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  2. KanawhaCountyWX Avatar
    KanawhaCountyWX

    I have it, but it’s in my junk drawer now, I’ve switched to an older Uniden corded phone. The AT&T waited on the Caller ID burst between the first and second rings before it’d start ringing, and so that meant I’d only get two rings before the call went to the answering machine. The Uniden doesn’t do that. I’ve also got a stand-alone talking Caller ID box so I can still tell who’s clling.

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  3. Landon205 Avatar
    Landon205

    Nice. Do you still have that phone now at the time I am wrighting this comment?

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  4. blazy-enterprises Avatar
    blazy-enterprises

    true, makes sence, I remember having to swap out my 500 for a telpal as I was calling the usps tracking line and couldn’t hit pound

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  5. KanawhaCountyWX Avatar
    KanawhaCountyWX

    While I’d love to use a model 500 or even a model 302 as my desk phone for the PBX, the lack of pulse inputs equivalent to the * and # keys would be an issue. A friend of mine (who has a three-set of this same type of AT&T cordless phone) also has a model 302 from 1939 connected to his VOIP line, and it works perfectly.

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  6. blazy-enterprises Avatar
    blazy-enterprises

    hell yeah, I’m rocking a 500 at my vcomputer desk and ocationally use an at&t1818

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  7. KanawhaCountyWX Avatar
    KanawhaCountyWX

    Damn, spot on, its an AT&T brand cordless. Its connected to an ATA and to a PBX run by the organization of folks that my internet radio station is a part of. At some point I’m gonna replace it with a Western Electric model 2554 phone, since not only does it have that classic charm, but it’ll also grant me n extra ring, since the AT&T model insists on waiting on the CallerID burst. I did eventually find the handset, it fell behind the rack.

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  8. blazy-enterprises Avatar
    blazy-enterprises

    hell yeah, love old technology like that, and as for the phone you were trying to locate?, sounded like an at&t branded phone, then again I’m a phone collecter so I know these things

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