On 9/17/2020 7:51 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
On 2020-09-17 9:26 a.m., Ken Blake wrote:
On 9/17/2020 4:10 AM, Frank Slootweg wrote:
Char Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 09:25:13 -0700, Ken Blake
wrote:

On 9/16/2020 9:15 AM, Char Jackson wrote:
[...]

Yep, PS/2, and the cables are really long. They're coiled up like a
telephone cord, (any kids in here may not know that phones used to
have a
cord),
They still do--at least all the ones (five of them) in my house,
except for the cell phones my wife and I have.

Even kids may have parents who who still use land lines.

I haven't had a corded phone since the late 80's, I think. I still
have a
5-phone wireless set, but they are in a drawer and are at risk of going
into the next box for Goodwill.

My house isn't even wired for corded phones. They put TV coax in when
they
built it, and I've added Cat6 Ethernet cable myself, but there are no
phone
lines anywhere.

Â*Â* My house (appartment) isn't wired for corded phones either, but I
still have a (cordless) phone [1], which is connected to the telephone
jack of the modem of my (coax cable) ISP. So you don't have to have
special wiring to still have a 'landline'/'fixed phone'/whatever. Of
course the difference with a *real* old-style 'analog' landline is that
things stop working in case of a power failure.


POTS lines stop working in case of a power failure? Not in my experience.



Check, power failures do not affect pots service, they run on their own
independent power systems.


Changing the subject slightly, I once knew a woman who told me she never
used her cell phone during a thunderstorm; she always used her land line
instead. That was because she "knew" that using a cell phone could get
her electrocuted if lightning struck nearby.


--
Ken