repairing outdated tech with even more outdated tech

[solarbird]

I just repaired a 20-year-old landline phone with 40-year-old components. Why? Because I can, and because my late parrot Zoe (YES SHE IS AN EX-PARROT YOU CAN STOP NOW) is still on the outgoing message recording.

I regret nothing.

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Comments

[technoshaman]

Did you just graft a Rat Slack speaker onto your answerphone?

[solarbird]

A 40-year-old wireless room monitor receiver, yes. Minus most of the circuitry inside.

I actually put an RCA output on the phone and an RCA input on the speaker; they could be plugged in anywhere now, if you had some demented need to do so. But the thing is, the speakerphone functionality is in the handset, and that's fine and I don't care that much anyway. The message listening functionality is on the base, and that speaker had blown. And had a custom mounting assembly and was a size I didn't have and and and. So I did this instead.

This also means if for some reason the house was super-noisy I could pick it up and listen to it closely if the message was faint or something. Once in a great while you get super-faint voice message and hey.