Should have kept my bag phone.
I don’t think they would even work with today’s systems.......
When I was a kid, one of the electrical whizzes in our family would take the Princess telephone apart and put it back together again, and it would still work. Likewise, many teenagers repaired their own cars. Boys built ham radio sets from kits from the “five and dime” (look it up, young people). My oldest male relative built his entire house by hand before the age of power tools. Now, you have to spend a fortune to upgrade your computer every couple of years, the government made everyone get rid of analog tvs, you pay more in real estate taxes and HOA fees than it costs to rent an apartment, and it costs $100 to $250 to replace a burned out headlight bulb on a late-model car. It’s almost impossible to go off the grid; and now they’re even trying to get rid of cash.
I’m glad I’m old.