[rescue] ... payphones

Ethan O'Toole ethan at 757tech.net
Thu May 27 07:05:23 CDT 2010


> You're wanting one with the keyboard, I assume?

If I can find one!

> I still occasionally see them at airports, but none with the keyboards.

I think the AT&T ones are all decomissioned? AT least AT&T exited the 
payphone business in 2008.

> I remember using one at a hotel in Chicago to read BBS email in the very
> early 90s.

The ones I saw never really were able to do much other than make normal 
telephone calls. But I only rarely saw one.

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