Re: Rotary Phones Still Work

Jan 26, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 1 Replies


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>> I can' t help but wonder if some teenagers would need lessons to use them. >
>Oh, teenagers used to know that receive-only (dial-less courtesy phones) could
>be button-modulated to generate calls; that would be the lesson
>that they'd remember. After bypassing the 'security' on that, they'd
>remember always what a dial was really doing.

I'd tap 10 times to get the operator. I'd tell her I was blind and ask her to dial the whole number for me.

And the article is full of wrong. While cellphones are required to allow 911, a dead landline is d e a d dead, with no dial tone, etc.

At one point ~20 years ago, Ma experimented with a scheme where the disconnected phone was allowed 911 & the business office, period. It didn't last long.

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