In alt.home.repair on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:06:54 GMT HorneTD
posted:

Tekkie® wrote:
meirman posted for all of us...
I don't top post - see either inline or at bottom.


BTW, with dial phones and no party line, the red and green wires of
the phone were interchangeable. With touch tone, you'll get a dial
tone if they are backwards, but you can't dial.

Meirman


BWAAAAA nooooooooooooooooooooo

That was only true with the old five hundred telephone sets. More
modern instruments do not have polarity sensitive key pads.

Did not know that. Thanks to you and Johnny.

(It will probably be another decade before I get to "modern
instruments".

Meirman
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