Quiz: How far are you from its home town?

[Stephen Furley]

Yes, nice 'phone, and nice restoration job you've done on it.  I'ts on my list of 'American 'phones that I don't have' which I posted last week, and probably the one that I'd most like to find, but they seem to be rare so I think  may be out of luck.  I think it's actually the best looking of all the 'modern', i.e. '50s and '60s standard desk-set telephones, i.e. the We 500, AE 80, SC 1543, Leich 105, GPO 706 and 746 etc.

I've never actually seen one, only a few pictures.

[JorgeAmely]

Stephen:

Check this out! 20% off this month and they ship overseas:

http://www.ericofon.com/catalog/classic2/ne540.htm

[Dan/Panther]

Jorge;
Excellent work on the Galion, very impressive. That's not a bad price for the NE Galion, at ericofon.
I was going to guess galion originally, but thought it was farther east than you stated.
I should have stuck with my first gut instinct.
D/P

[AET]

Jorge, I dunno how you do it.  I'm just completely impressed.  Just wow-ed.

[JorgeAmely]

Tom:

It is a very simple formula: time and patience.

Time I get from not watching too much TV, patience after raising four cats, two kids and a wife.




PS: It helps if you don't take yourself too seriously.

[AET]

Well, I'm told I have the patience of a saint.  And I don't take myself too seriously, I make myself the butt of most every joke.  But I still don't think I'll ever acheive this greatness.

[Dan]

Jorge, I know how to raise kids, but how do you RAISE a wife? Mine thinks she's the boss.

[Jester]

I bet you ask her opinion, Dan, SHE KNOWS SHE IS!!!!

[JorgeAmely]

Dan, that's OK, what you don't know doesn't hurt you.

[Dan]

I know, I hand her the paycheck. She mat have a Swiss Bank account somewhere with a different name....

[Greg G.]

In my case, 2323 miles.

What about you?

The straight line distance between Seattle and Tokyo is approximately 4785 miles or 7700 kilometers.

[Greg G.]

I guess Holland is even farther.  Not sure of the actual town where Heemaf is, I took a guess based on the address on their website:  http://www.heemaf.nl

The straight line distance between Seattle and Twenthe is approximately 4921 miles or 7920 kilometers.

[HobieSport]

Briny; Heemaf is/was in the city of Hengelo, The Netherlands (Holland).

Okay; how far is it from Mendocino, California to Milano, Italy?

[Stephen Furley]

Stephen:

Check this out! 20% off this month and they ship overseas:

http://www.ericofon.com/catalog/classic2/ne540.htm

It's very tempting, but there's no way I can afford it, plus the postage and the tax, at the moment.  I don't know what it is, but there's something about that 'phone that looks very smart.

There's something that puzzles me though; that site calls it both a 540, and a 541, and I've also seen both numbers used elsewhere.  Were there two different, but very similar, modles or did two different people make the same mistake?

[Greg G.]

Briny; Heemaf is/was in the city of Hengelo, The Netherlands (Holland).

Okay; how far is it from Mendocino, California to Milano, Italy?

5880 miles.  I used this website to get the distance:  http://tinyurl.com/ns3r6r