Monday, May 26, 2008
My telephones
Our first phone was installed when I was 3 but I remember it.
No more running next door to make a phone call or receive one.
It was one with 2 pieces...you spoke in the speaker part and listened with the the ear phone.
When you lifted the handset, a very pleasant, non-computer voice said 'Number Please.
We had a 4-party line and if we were on too long, we heard about it from the other parties...and then we hung up fast.
Later, we got a circular number dial phone and I thought that was really 'up there'. The word high-tech did not come into being yet.
When Jeff was on vacation from college on Chanukah, he said we're all going to Sears and he was going to buy us a 'push button' phone.
Well, I was against this but I went along. That meant he had to un-install the one we had and re-install the new one.
I really thought I would never have telephone service again...but Jeff and Allen worked on this project and when they were finished, we had a dial tone and I knew we were back in business.
Now I have 3 phones...land phone, remote and a cell phone, which Jeff and Donna have charged for me every year....and every year I have tons of minutes on it ... but I forget to use it. I just don't like the quality of it....seems like a toy phone to me.
The phone I have in my bedroom is really snazzy....it's an 'answering machine' which I think is a miracle in itself.
I have 'caller ID' which interrupts me if I'm using the phone.
I also have a 'speaker phone'....and an ID feature which lets me screen calls if I want to.
It also tells me what time the caller has tried to reach me and the day.
I think that even Alexander Graham Bell would be overwhelmed by the wonderfulness that he invented.
What a sensationl invention. And one other feature, I get to use a web-cam and to see and talk to my kids every Sunday when they give me computer lessons...all the things I screwed up with during the week. Because of the phone I have high-speed internet service...all for reading ythe silly jokes.
I'm not complaining...I JUST LOVE IT1
No more running next door to make a phone call or receive one.
It was one with 2 pieces...you spoke in the speaker part and listened with the the ear phone.
When you lifted the handset, a very pleasant, non-computer voice said 'Number Please.
We had a 4-party line and if we were on too long, we heard about it from the other parties...and then we hung up fast.
Later, we got a circular number dial phone and I thought that was really 'up there'. The word high-tech did not come into being yet.
When Jeff was on vacation from college on Chanukah, he said we're all going to Sears and he was going to buy us a 'push button' phone.
Well, I was against this but I went along. That meant he had to un-install the one we had and re-install the new one.
I really thought I would never have telephone service again...but Jeff and Allen worked on this project and when they were finished, we had a dial tone and I knew we were back in business.
Now I have 3 phones...land phone, remote and a cell phone, which Jeff and Donna have charged for me every year....and every year I have tons of minutes on it ... but I forget to use it. I just don't like the quality of it....seems like a toy phone to me.
The phone I have in my bedroom is really snazzy....it's an 'answering machine' which I think is a miracle in itself.
I have 'caller ID' which interrupts me if I'm using the phone.
I also have a 'speaker phone'....and an ID feature which lets me screen calls if I want to.
It also tells me what time the caller has tried to reach me and the day.
I think that even Alexander Graham Bell would be overwhelmed by the wonderfulness that he invented.
What a sensationl invention. And one other feature, I get to use a web-cam and to see and talk to my kids every Sunday when they give me computer lessons...all the things I screwed up with during the week. Because of the phone I have high-speed internet service...all for reading ythe silly jokes.
I'm not complaining...I JUST LOVE IT1
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