And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Made for high-noise industrial settings, possibly explosion proof. Looks like the metal cap might be the old fashioned bell that rings when a call comes in.
Reminds me of the special phones we used to install in a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. The chemical fumes would eat into the thing and it rarely lasted more than a month. They cost $500 bucks a piece in 1980. Finally we suggested they replace them with a common wall set, $8 a piece. Those sets would last at least a week and they could pop it off and put a new one on in seconds. "But (!) they're not explosion proof! If there is a blast that cheap phone wouldn't survive for anybody to use it!". "Listen. The cheap phone will survive a 'blast' better then any one of your workers. If the phone is killed. So is anybody near enough that might need to use it.".
Nope. We kept replacing the $500 dollar phone until the day the plant closed.
Must be E. German!
ReplyDelete....or Russian. Most everything made there is kinda ugly...except for the womens.
ReplyDeleteSpark resistant. Underground mining? js
ReplyDeleteYup - seen em like that in aircraft fueling operations shacks
DeleteMade for high-noise industrial settings, possibly explosion proof. Looks like the metal cap might be the old fashioned bell that rings when a call comes in.
ReplyDeleteReminds me of the special phones we used to install in a nuclear fuel reprocessing plant. The chemical fumes would eat into the thing and it rarely lasted more than a month. They cost $500 bucks a piece in 1980.
ReplyDeleteFinally we suggested they replace them with a common wall set, $8 a piece. Those sets would last at least a week and they could pop it off and put a new one on in seconds.
"But (!) they're not explosion proof! If there is a blast that cheap phone wouldn't survive for anybody to use it!".
"Listen. The cheap phone will survive a 'blast' better then any one of your workers. If the phone is killed. So is anybody near enough that might need to use it.".
Nope. We kept replacing the $500 dollar phone until the day the plant closed.
I keep getting the notion that the .gov likes to spend money...prodigiously!
DeleteHey, other than being "everyone's money", no one owns gubment money!
DeleteCan you get the iPhone version?
ReplyDeleteDesigned and built before the Asians took over the comm industry. The makers did not care how much it cost to make or to ship or to sell.
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