Subj : Re: Telephone Collecting
To   : Sbaitso
From : Ewing
Date : Mon Jul 24 2023 21:27:36

  Re: Re: Telephone Collecting
  By: Sbaitso to Ewing on Sun Jul 23 2023 03:18 pm

 Sb> That is absolutely fascinating. I've never heard of someone collecting old
 Sb> phones. I remember at my local bookstore always looking at the back page
 Sb> (cover?) of the 2600 magazine where they would have pictures of payphones
 Sb> from various countries. I find stuff like this very interesting.

Yes, 2600 always has photos of payphones in the back which are fascinating. I'm a lifetime subscriber of 2600 and have been reading it for most of my life. Coming across a copy in the local newsagent when I was around 12 is probably what helped kick off this lifetime interest in telephony!

 Sb> Do you have a webpage with any pictures of your collection? I would be
 Sb> interested in seeing what everything looks like. Are there many other
 Sb> collectors out there? Are the old phones difficult to find or fairly
 Sb> common? 

I do have a site under development but it's not finished yet. I'll post a link when it's up and running!

There are a few other collectors out there and I've become quite good friends with a few of them. Sadly as hosted telephony platforms become commonplace it's becoming harder and harder to find systems as they're just the same old boring handsets from Cisco, Avaya, and Yealink but within the collector community we often swap things around to get what we want - whether they be telephones, system cards, or even whole systems themselves.
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