Retro phones compatible with on modern system?

Question

Does anyone know, either knowledge or experience, whether you can use a 70's retro phone, you know the modernised copies they are bringing out now which are pulse, on a home system with broadband filters and other phones being digital?

thanks.

Answer 1

you just need a pulse to tone converter

http://www.oldphoneworks.com/antique-pho...

http://telsoftdirect.com/index.asp?PageA...

those are just two links, if you search around you might be able to do better with the prices...

if the system that you are connecting it to does not recognize the pulse dialing  then any pulse to tone converter will work, if the system you are connecting it to will recognize the pulse dialing, then you will need to get one that mutes out the pulse signals from being sent, otherwise you will dial double digits, and always get wrong numbers..

Answer 2

You can't just take a 1970s phone and connect it to the modern system but there are people who convert them.

Take a look on Ebay - you'll find dozens of sellers who have bought phones that worked on the old (analogue, loop disconnect) systems, and have converted them to work on today's modern, digital telephone networks.

My dad recently found two old 706 dial telephones in his attic and we sold them on Ebay to dealers who will convert them and put the necessary plug on the end of the cable.