Engineer Fixes and Re-Installs Old Payphones, Provides Free Calls to the Public - Core77
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Payphones "were the only things that were built to last for decades and be out in the elements," says electrical engineer Patrick Schlott. He should know; as a hobby, he buys secondhand payphones, rewires them, then asks local businesses in rural Vermont if they'd let him install them. His goal
  • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
    11·
    15 days ago

    His goal is to offer, for free, public telephone service. (Schlott foots the bill himself.)

    What an absolute hero. I can only see one flaw with his plan though… Who the hell memorizes phone numbers anymore?

    • Sturgist
      3·
      15 days ago

      I know 3 numbers by heart, mine, my wife’s, and my dad’s because he’s had the same number since I was 10.