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Why wasn't this one introduced first? From a friend's email.
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i have one that i understand, more often that not, i have to actually tap it against something hard to make it work, dont know why, but its the only way it will work
 
Eric, I had a phone like that. I couldn't hear it until I banged it against something hard, or spanked it with my pliers a couple of times. It happened during the harvest so I couldn't get to a Verizon store to get a replacement. Whenever someone called me they would hear a bunch of thumping through their phone and then I would answer. Got to be a joke within our crew. "Nelsen beats up on his phone before he answers it". Jim
 
My wife works part time at a BP station that also sells and services lawn mowers, does lite auto repair and such. The other day a girl came in while she was working right after the shop closed. Wife told me this girl was in a panic. She did know where her fuze box was and her power ports for charging her cell phone were not working. She ask my wife if she couldn't call a mechanic.....she just couldn't drive to the twin cities without her phone.

Rick
 
(quoted from post at 08:50:05 09/02/12) My wife works part time at a BP station that also sells and services lawn mowers, does lite auto repair and such. The other day a girl came in while she was working right after the shop closed. Wife told me this girl was in a panic. She did know where her fuze box was and her power ports for charging her cell phone were not working. She ask my wife if she couldn't call a mechanic.....she just couldn't drive to the twin cities without her phone.

Rick
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ep,without a cellphone people are completely lost these days. :roll:
I'm glad i ain't have one.
Besides,i ain't young enough to figger out how to work these contraptions anyway :shock:
 
I didn't know rotaries would still work on today's phone lines.

I remember when we'd call Grandma in a little town with no rotary service- dial 0, ask the operator for Yelm, another operator comes on, and you ask for 96X. Called one time, operator said she had just seen grandma on her way to Wolf's Store for groceries, maybe try back in an hour or so. Early day answering machine, I guess.
 
That"s an imitation- clearly, there is no hand crank on the side like my TracFone has, so it just won"t work.
 
Most local phone companies still allow the rotary phone. As you know, it makes a certain amount of "clicks", depending on the number you dialed. One click for the number 1 hole, Five clicks for the number 5 hole.
Remember when a business could lock out outgoing calls by the little locks that they would put on the number 1 hole? DID YOU KNOW that you could still dial out without using the rotary dial (if you were good and practiced it) by quickly pushing the button that the headpiece rested on? If you have an old rotary, try it some time. Of course if you wanted to dial 2, you pushed the button twice and if you wanted to dial 7, you pushed the button 7 times fairly fast.
Information from a misspent youth.
 
thats exactly the way this one is, lol and i cant make it to their office as its a 140 mile trip, and i just dont have time right now,
 
My son, the phone tech, has a couple of old rotaries in use at his house. Phone techs usually have an interesting collection of odd phone equipment.
 
I still have a dial phone in the shop. It has the loudest ringer so it still serves me well.

When I was growing up the phone number was 44F6. You knew the call was for you if you heard two long rings followed by a short one. You could always tell who on the party line was getting a call just by the way the phone would ring.
 
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