Rotary Phones

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  • March 10, 2008 at 8:46 am #68248
    Lingster
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    LAWL: http://www.wikihow.com/Dial-a-Rotary-Phone

    March 10, 2008 at 10:08 am #68249
    stmercy2020
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    Oh my lord- that's frackin' hysterical.  Ther are people who actually need this stuff?  I suppose that the bit about how to dial if you have no actual spinny-thing could be useful- if you happen to be a total loser…

    March 10, 2008 at 3:29 pm #68250
    cpbell0033944
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    I'm convinced the world started to go downhill when touch-tone replaced those things. ;D

    March 11, 2008 at 6:09 am #68251
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    I have one I keep in the hallway near my front door – a Kellogg "Red Bar" from the 40s.  It's been rewired for a modern modular jack.  I don't have cause to dial it very often, but sometimes I do.

    March 11, 2008 at 8:07 am #68252
    stmercy2020
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    Nothing wrong with the phones themselves; I'm laughing at people who can't figure out the correct care and feeding of the buggers without a how-to manual…

    March 11, 2008 at 10:09 am #68253
    demented20
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    That little 'how to' makes me feel old. I remember when most houses still used rotary phones. Now granted I was young, but still. That's like have a 'how to' telling how to use a cassette player, but I guess they have those too.

    March 11, 2008 at 10:27 pm #68254
    cpbell0033944
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    That little 'how to' makes me feel old. I remember when most houses still used rotary phones. Now granted I was young, but still. That's like have a 'how to' telling how to use a cassette player, but I guess they have those too.

    Ah cassettes… 8)

    March 11, 2008 at 11:19 pm #68255
    Fett
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    Thank Christ. I've lost family members in deadly rotary phone dialing accidents.

    IF ONLY THEY'D HAD THE INTERWIKI SOONER!!!!  :'( :'(

    March 12, 2008 at 6:34 am #68256
    Robert McNay
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    Excuse me for a moment……

    (quickly draws curtains so no one sees the rotary phone in the basement, 400 vinyl albums on the shelves, 65 cassettes in a rack and the PC with a 5.25 drive still in it.)

    March 12, 2008 at 9:56 pm #68257
    cpbell0033944
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    Excuse me for a moment……

    (quickly draws curtains so no one sees the rotary phone in the basement, 400 vinyl albums on the shelves, 65 cassettes in a rack and the PC with a 5.25 drive still in it.)

    Luddite! ;D 😀

    Just joking – I too have a fondness for older technology.

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