That's what this girl, around 8 or 9, asked after I mentioned to her dad that I heard phone companies are planning to phase them out. The dad and all the customers behind them were Me, too.
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Makes you wonder what kids would think of typewriters and record players...I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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Quoth Soulstealer View PostI bet showing her a rotary phone would be fun.I am not an a**hole. I am a hemorrhoid. I irritate a**holes!
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Quoth patiokitty View PostWhen I tell people I'm old enough that I learned how to type in a typewriter I get the strangest looks! It was an IMB Selectric with the pop-out font ball, and I learned how to type up business letters, memos, and a bunch of other assorted things that have since fallen out of use in this age of computers and Word templates.
I also had two typewriters at home that I used . . . one was a portable Smith Corona electric (which gave me a royal fit when I'd try to use it) and a vintage Consul manual. Ask me which one got more use?
Quoth PatiokittyI know for ages all the kids wanted one of those yellow and black Sony Walkman cassette players - it was to us what iPods are to the kids these days. Well, if your a kid who has bought into the iPod craze, that is.
I had one of those too . . . wasn't a Sony brand (they were too expensive for my mom to afford back then) but I had a GE model w/FM radio. And I've lost count of how many boom boxes (or Ghetto Blasters as they were also popularly known as) we had during that decade.
The next to last one we bought needed a trailer and a hitch - it was SO big. It not only had the double cassette deck built in, but also inputs for a CD player and turntable. Had AM/FM/TV/Shortwave built in and a siren and strobe light that if it were set, you didn't dare walk in front of it. It would go off and it could be heard 5 miles away in all directions!!!
And I found a pic online of one just like it (sadly, I don't have mine anymore - it left my building when all my vintage Commodore computer equipment walked out some years back.)Last edited by DGoddessChardonnay; 07-14-2013, 08:18 PM.Human Resources - the adult version of "I'm telling Mom." - Agent Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo (NCIS)
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My grandmother still has an old calculator that doesn't use any electricity. My mother still has my dad's slide rule.This site proves Corey Taylor right. Man really is a "four letter word."
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As a collector of vintage telephones, I know pretty damn well what they are. I have several dozen of them at this point, mostly with rotary dials, though some are touchtone (several of which are early examples, with only ten buttons on the dial pad, missing the star and pound keys, which makes it difficult to use some phone menus). We have Verizon FiOS's basic phone service which, fortunately, is mostly friendly to rotary phones (only issue is that it's extremely picky with regards to the rate of dial pulses; if the phone's rotary dial is too fast or too slow, it won't recognize the digits). I keep several of my old phones hooked up at all times, rotating between examples in the collection.
Quoth Soulstealer View PostI bet showing her a rotary phone would be fun.
Quoth dalesys View PostBetter yet, one with a crank to ring Central.
Quoth XCashier View PostMakes you wonder what kids would think of typewriters and record players...Quoth protege View Post...or cassettes and 8-tracks
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Quoth AdamAnt316 View PostAs a collector of vintage telephones, I know pretty damn well what they are. I have several dozen of them at this point, mostly with rotary dials, though some are touchtone (several of which are early examples, with only ten buttons on the dial pad, missing the star and pound keys, which makes it difficult to use some phone menus). We have Verizon FiOS's basic phone service which, fortunately, is mostly friendly to rotary phones (only issue is that it's extremely picky with regards to the rate of dial pulses; if the phone's rotary dial is too fast or too slow, it won't recognize the digits). I keep several of my old phones hooked up at all times, rotating between examples in the collection.Life: Reality TV for deities. - dalesys
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Quoth mhkohne View PostAwesome! I just sort of assumed that the fios adapter wouldn't talk rotary. I'll have to getbmine back out. Thanks!
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Quoth Soulstealer View PostI bet showing her a rotary phone would be fun.
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Quoth AdamAnt316 View PostI'm considering setting up an obsolete technology museum someday, though I'm far from working out the logistics.I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
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Quoth AdamAnt316 View PostI'm considering setting up an obsolete technology museum someday, though I'm far from working out the logistics.
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I still have a portable cassette player/radio. Still works.
I recall once being in the local thrift store with my brother and this kid standing nearby points to a record player and says, "Can you show me how this works?"
Talk about a sign of getting old...!When you start at zero, everything's progress.
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