Miles’s family must be one of the best-off in the neighbourhood. In 1985, we had two landlines (one solely for my father’s study) with two corded phones plugged into the mainline (which was even still pulse-dial only, and I think both phones hooked up to it had dials), and a tone-capable line for the study with a beige Model 2500 hooked up that I think was actually one of Mountain Bell’s last rental phones (though we never gave it back and it moved houses with us). I don’t think there was a cordless phone in the entire development, and certainly not with any of the families whose kids my sister and I visited.
Miles’s family must be one of the best-off in the neighbourhood. In 1985, we had two landlines (one solely for my father’s study) with two corded phones plugged into the mainline (which was even still pulse-dial only, and I think both phones hooked up to it had dials), and a tone-capable line for the study with a beige Model 2500 hooked up that I think was actually one of Mountain Bell’s last rental phones (though we never gave it back and it moved houses with us). I don’t think there was a cordless phone in the entire development, and certainly not with any of the families whose kids my sister and I visited.