Phone line tool- any reason to keep?

[GON]

Have had this phone line tool for decades. With digital lines and wireless phones, and reason to keep this handset?

 

[Kira]

Should you ever become a spy in a country with a less developed communications system....?

 

[Propflux01]

Time for eBay!

 

[ClutchDisc]

Maybe donate it to a museum?

 

[AZjeff]

Get rid if it today and you'll need it next week. Guaranteed.

 

[nomas]

I got rid of mine a couple of years ago . No more landline for me .

 

[Geekhead]

Have had this phone line tool for decades. With digital lines and wireless phones, and reason to keep this handset?
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Well you could market yourself as a POTS consultant much like the oldtimers who still can work with COBOL or FORTRAN

 

[mrsilv04]

A butt set. I haven't seen one of those in years, especially since I got out of telco.

 

[twhaslet]

I have one that I got in 1982. Haven't used it in 20 years. I tried mine on FB for $25, no takers. If you find a buyer, tell them you have a line on another one.

 

[supton]

Not sure what it costs to fleabay it but perhaps you could just keep it up for sale indefinitely. Some museum or collector might some day want it.

 

[bdcardinal]

Funny story about one of these when I was a kid. We lived in a 4 unit apartment and randomly we started getting billed for calls to Korea. Now the neighbor in the front unit was from Korea, which seemed odd. My mom would call the phone company and explain what was going on and they eventually said there was nothing they could do. Then I would pick up the phone and hear people talking in what I guess was Korean and I would yell to hang up. Then one day I was going to do laundry and the neighbor was in the laundry room with one of these hooked up talking to someone. My mom was very shocked that 10-11 year old me used many of George Carlin's 7 words to tell him what I thought of what he was doing.

 

[wavinwayne]

...My mom was very shocked that 10-11 year old me used many of George Carlin's 7 words to tell him what I thought of what he was doing.

10-11 year old you managed to use "ship", "pass", "funk", "cant", "cordlicker", "monkeyfumble", and "tips" into one tirade? That's impressive.

 

[bdcardinal]

10-11 year old you managed to use "ship", "pass", "funk", "cant", "cordlicker", "monkeyfumble", and "tips" into one tirade? That's impressive.

I grew up on war movies, so I knew most of them. That and my mom loved George Carlin.