Green GPO 746
My new green GPO 746 turned up today.
The line cord on it is the wrong colour for the phone, and is fitted with a Plug 420. The mic element is an electronic Transmitter No. 21A, and there’s a label on the bottom dated 1987. This all makes me think it was a replacement phone issued in the late 80s to a house which already had “Extension Plan 4″ instalation.
I think all it really needs doing to it is a new (green!) line cord, and a new handset cord as the existing one is a bit stretched, then a bit of a clean and it’ll be a fine addition to my growing collection.
I’m also making progress on the plan to build a small intercom/pabx to plug the collection into, they’re more fun if they’re working!
Surely what you need is a device that gradually rings more and more of your phones as an incoming call arrives, until the whole house is full of electroactuated goodness…
I think that would be a nice feature, I’ll add it to the wishlist. For the moment though, I really *need* to be able to phone one room in my house from any other room.
Answering that phone when it rings (given that for the majority of the time I live alone) is an exercise for the reader.
Sorry I didn’t respond to your question regarding the red phone on my website. No it isn’t mine, but I do have a cream 746 which was my main phone, but has finally been decommissioned due to: a) not doing ‘press 1′ call centres very well (at all), b) taking so long to dial that you’ve forgotten which number you’re up to, and c) making anyone near it jump out of their skin when it rings. I was willing to put up with those issues, but H isn’t (and nor should she be). So the long and the short of it is… would you like a cream 746 for your collection? I can send it by jugglermail if you’d like to receive it in about 10 years time after it’s been to Canada and back.
10 years? That’s a bit optimistic for jugglermail isn’t it? :-)
But yes, if it’s looking for a home I’ll gladly find a space for it in my collection.
Hurrah! I shall get it sent! Good luck, phone! :)