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My parents still have two working rotary phones on their landline. And not one of those fancy, newfangled plastic ones, theirs are metal that hurt my fingers.
by thinkcontext 5y ago
My parents still have two working rotary phones on their landline. And not one of those fancy, newfangled plastic ones, theirs are metal that hurt my fingers. They are hard wired into the wall as they are from before RJ11 connectors.
They got FIOS a while back. The tech that showed up was gobsmacked that the phones still worked after the install.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoBefore RJ11 connectors, phones in the USA were not hardwired, at least not where I was from. There was a 4-prong, large plastic beige connector. When RJ11 became popular, I remember converters from this old 4-prong to the new RJ11 “modular jack” as it was colloquially called. Pic: https://www.oldphoneshop.com/products/4-prong-plug-telephone-jack-ivory-original.html https://www.oldphoneshop.com/products/4-prong-plug-telephone...
- atdrummond 5y agoIt definitely depended on where you were in the US. For some comparison, our home in Quincy, Illinois (built in 1895) did not have a No. 283 four pin setup like you linked; instead, the original phones were hardwired into the walls and the copper. Conversely, my grandparents’ home in Morton, IL had the 283 plugs.