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You Can Get a New 30-Year-Old Telephone.

MILFORD, Conn., July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- AbleComm, Inc. sells the latest 21st-century telecom technology. But for people who miss the simpler 20th century, the company also sells rotary dial phones made in the 1970s, with no antennas, no batteries, no GigaHertzes, and bells that actually ring.

AbleComm started selling phones and phone systems in 1977. In the mid 1980s, the business changed faster than they anticipated. People stopped buying basic phones, and AbleComm still had hundreds.

They couldn't sell them and didn't give them away or throw them away; they just put them away.

After a couple ...

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