Date   : Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:06:53 +0100
From   : Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
Subject: Re: Stuff for sale which may be of interest...

James Gibbon wrote:

> It should be, the current BT socket design has been in place since
> (at least) the very early '80s.  Before that if I remember correctly,
> there wasn't a socket at all, just a box on the wall that your phone
> was hard-wired to.

Although there was a period when there was a plug and socket not entirely unlike
a 4-way version of the larger headphone plugs (3.5"?).

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