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Originally Posted by russell_w_b
I wonder how many of today's telephones will still be working and serviceable sixty years hence?
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None if I bring them up here.
I'm around 814'ASL, and have in the past 16 years had many modern phones destroyed by lightning. One went just as I was about to use it, nice piece of charcoal now. The DECT ones, the base units just fry. The vintage ones are fine, not even flashover damage.
I went through 9 telephones & 7 modems before finally installing some decent lightning arresters! No problem with the old ones.
David.