Old Technology.....

[MossRoad]

[video=youtube;1OADXNGnJok]https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=143&v=1OADXNGnJok[/video]

 

[Jstpssng]

And the ad up top was for...

Robot Check

 

[mark02tj]

Pretty funny! Makes me wonder if my own kids (ages 25 and 27) could do it. I think that by the time they were born we already had touch-tone phones everywhere at home.

Did anyone notice that the phone is sitting on a "Harry Potter" box? :laughing: Maybe ol' Harry could have come up with a spell to help them dial? :laughing:

 

[Thomas]

Hope its not or 2 or 3 party line.

 

[LD48750]

The first phone I remember didn't have a dial.
You just told the operator what number you wanted & she hooked you up.

 

[mrmikey]

LOL, that is funny.
Friend of mine's daughter got in an old car, she'd be 14-16 years or so, couldn't figure out how to put the window down with the manual window crank...........Mike

 

[ultrarunner]

That could have been my 16 year old nephew who is the go to person in the family for smart phones and apps...

I have several rotary dial phones... he asked how does it work and as he was trying to figure it out I rang and never saw someone jump so high...

When I showed how it works he had to call his Mom just to test it...

Amazing how fast collective institutional knowledge fades...

 

[kcflhrc]

Well, I have been installing telephones for 40 years and have never installed a rotary phone. Replaced hundreds if not thousands of them though. However, a rotary phone will still work on our Central Office Switches and there are still a lot of them out there I'm sure.

 

[Industrial Toys]

You have to start with someone that knows how to put on a hat.

Jay Lenno used to have this great piece in some shows about going to the street and asking people stuff you would think everyone would know.

 

[drssg]

That could have been my 16 year old nephew who is the go to person in the family for smart phones and apps...

I have several rotary dial phones... he asked how does it work and as he was trying to figure it out I rang and never saw someone jump so high...

When I showed how it works he had to call his Mom just to test it...

Amazing how fast collective institutional knowledge fades...

Did he know his mom’s number? Or did he have to look it up in his smart phone.

 

[kcflhrc]

We live in a tech savvy world, you either grasp it and hold on tight or sit in the corner and watch it go by. My lively hood requires me to grasp it or look for another job. In twenty more years you will show a teenager a current Smartphone of today and he will look at you like the teenagers looking at the rotary phone.

 

[Industrial Toys]

That phone and it's technology could have sat on a table and worked non stop for forty years. No updates, or denial of service. You would DIAL 0 and within a second a human, friendly, helpful operator would be on the line!

BELL STILL charges EXTRA for DTMF service even though it costs them less to provide that service and ties up their switching equipment for a shorter time.

My DAD STILL has Rotary service, and I had to rig up his NORTEL business system, so he dials out on a CO line using rotary and then switches to another line, so he can use DTMF for end to end signalling.

 

[kcflhrc]

That phone and it's technology could have sat on a table and worked non stop for forty years. No updates, or denial of service. You would DIAL 0 and within a second a human, friendly, helpful operator would be on the line!

BELL STILL charges EXTRA for DTMF service even though it costs them less to provide that service and ties up their switching equipment for a shorter time.

My DAD STILL has Rotary service, and I had to rig up his NORTEL business system, so he dials out on a CO line using rotary and then switches to another line, so he can use DTMF for end to end signalling.

How does that work? Seems cumbersome and annoying.

 

[Industrial Toys]

No, not at all, He dials out on line one, using a dial pad but programmed to send out pules, gets connected and then presses line two (which is programmed for Tone) to continue, if he is going to need DTMF. I put a delay on line one dropping or it would normally drop the call. BOTH lines are connected to the same one line.

 

[Alan W.]

One of the exercises that we were asked to do in team building was for the teams to draw the dial of a rotary phone. Most were clueless and this was in 86 or 87.
Trainer said that was the problem, you used something constanly but never noticed it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I have a rotary and touch tone answering machine on the same line...

People have commented how clear the sound is with the rotary... makes one wonder.

My oldest rotary is 1940's???

The home I recently bought was built/owned by a career Pacific Bell man... each room, including the bathrooms are wall phones... there phones at both ends of the garage and on the deck...

I guess it was opulent 25 years ago...

He had boxes of real antique phones... which the family kept... some were quite primitive... very crude wall phones...

 

[Industrial Toys]

There is only a carbon mic, dynamic earpiece and a transformer in the old 500 sets. No electronic amplifiers that may be poorly (cheaply) designed and effect the bandpass and sound quality. You may have to hit carbon mic on a table every now and then to free up the granules.

 

[kcflhrc]

No, not at all, He dials out on line one, using a dial pad but programmed to send out pules, gets connected and then presses line two (which is programmed for Tone) to continue, if he is going to need DTMF. I put a delay on line one dropping or it would normally drop the call. BOTH lines are connected to the same one line.

Worked on Nortel Key and PBX since 1991 never seen that done. If you are on line 1 and press line 2 line 1 either drops or goes on hold if auto hold is programmed. Not sure how you accomplished this.

 

[Industrial Toys]

I believe I simply put a capacitor on the line one seizure relay, so it would release just a little to late to drop the call when picking up line two. You can't have auto hold enabled.

 

[ultrarunner]

There is only a carbon mic, dynamic earpiece and a transformer in the old 500 sets. No electronic amplifiers that may be poorly (cheaply) designed and effect the bandpass and sound quality. You may have to hit carbon mic on a table every now and then to free up the granules.

Does dropping the phone count???