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One thing we *always* keep around in the phone room is a single
Bat Phone, an old black analog set that works even when nothing
else is running. It's DTMF, but that's its only concession to the last
decades of the 20th century. Regardless of what high-tech comms
gear we might run, we're still reliant on the crude technology of
the early Bell System when it's crunch time.
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Batphone to the rescue!
One thing we *always* keep around in the phone room is a single
Bat Phone, an old black analog set that works even when nothing
else is running. It's DTMF, but that's its only concession to the last
decades of the 20th century. Regardless of what high-tech comms
gear we might run, we're still reliant on the crude technology of
the early Bell System when it's crunch time.