@JDX (was:Re: Special event? I'll set my watch!)
"Will you then phone up your friend using a hard-wired pulse-based rotary dial telephone?"
Why yes, yes I will. But only if said friend also has that capability. You see, I live in earthquake country. The Rogers Creek Fault (probable home of California's next "big one") is not very far from here. My 1950s Model 500 Western Electric telephone and attendant landline will almost certainly survive the quake, the cellular system will very probably not. And even if the cellular system does survive, chances are that mains power will be out for a week or more. No battery, no cell.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
