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Mark Lloyd wrote:

Talk about backwards-compatibility: Buy a 1930s-vintage telephone
at a garage sale. Assuming it is in working condition, you can take
it home, connect it and take/make calls today. Whoopee!

An old phone would be a way to keep little kids from making calls.
They won't be able to find the pushbuttons.

You said it.

Recently, I read/heard that someone performed a test: Individually,
10-year-old kids were placed in a room with a rotary-dial phone and asked to
dial 911. Most of them were UNABLE to do so.

Kinda makes ya feel old... sigh
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JR