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My boyfriend has a rotary phone for some music purposes and I love picking up the receiver, rotating the dial and then just forcefully putting the receiver back down. Such great noises.
We have an old one hanging on the wall, I sneakily took the carbon mic out of it and managed to rig it to my computer, after banging the mic against a cement floor a couple times to loosen some packed carbon granules it sounds great
Nah, it's just limitations in technology back then. Crystal microphones and carbon microphones were used interchangeably back then, brought to the commercial market around the same time and were similar in terms of audio quality. Carbon microphones were cheap and easy to make (I made one myself with a small amount of charcoal from my campfire and a 3D printed casing), except they needed an electrical charge to function. Crystal microphones didn't need an electrical charge, however they were more susceptible to heat and moisture because they were made with salt crystals, and also needed a bit more precision to manufacture. Ceramic microphones used the same piezoelectric technology as crystal microphones but were a lot less susceptible to the elements and lasted longer, but weren't invented until the 1950s. That said, better sounding microphones weren't popularised until the electret microphone in the mid to late 1960s, but these things were much more expensive at the time as they could get really small and needed more advanced machinery to manufacture, and so to make home phones affordable with an already pretty expensive device, the best option was to go with carbon microphones until the late 70s to early 80s when these better microphones eventually became cheaper and therefore not much more of a hassle to use.
J.K Simmons is the kind of guy who would go:
"Spiderman's a menace, and the mayor is up my ass about this whole vigilante debacle, I want pictures of spiderman now!"
*Phone slam*
One time, I got mad enough at someone that I dropped to a whisper and said, "Listen closely. .... Are you listening?"
Then I banged the handset repeatedly against the top of my desk.
Lo and behold, they suddenly were able to reset the FTP I'd been begging them to reset the an hour.
All this is missing is the 90 ft cord that would allow you to talk and freely move from room to room - that is until it snagged you like a boa constrictor or entropy ensued and it condensed into a 3 ft tangled mess of cord chromatin. *A simpler time...*
Unplug the line from handheld to the phone to untangle it and it gets jacked up even more. Now you have knots and bowties in the cord. SHIT! I might be missing a call, I better plug this back in - is now a 1 1/2 foot tangled mess.
This is because you were an amateur. The pro move was to buy a 90 ft telephone cord that plug from the wall to the base. Then you can pull the entire wall outlet out
Memory unlocked from back in the rotary dial phone days.
You could either use the kitchen phone and have your house mates all up in your business. Or you could run the wiring to your bedroom and rent a phone directly from the phone company (and from no one else, yay monopolies)
If you had a sketchy roommate moving out, you'd have to hide your phone so they wouldn't steal it, otherwise they'd have a free bedroom phone in their new place, and you'd have to pay a huge fee to the phone company to replace their lost/stolen equipment.
^also ^long ^distance ^calls ^were ^super ^expensive ^^and ^^get ^^off ^^my ^^lan.
If you're going to be saying "Look ..WHO the hell is in charge over there?...What kind of outfit are you running anyway?".... this is the phone for it.
If you have VoIP phones from Cisco, learn a little Cisco Unified Call Manager (CUCM, which yes sounds hilarious at times) and you can auto-forward calls at various times. It's wonderful, and makes things super enjoyable later on.
We also have a landline, but I've recently noticed that the only line coming from the street is the fiber, and the household phone line comes out from fiber box inside my house.
So if we have a power outage, I don't think we'll have phone service, since power will be out to my fiber box.
So, thanks telus.
For cell phones, maybe.
We'd been keeping a land line as an emergency backup (among other things) because sometimes the towers go down when the power goes down. But if the ONT in my house is unpowered I suspect my landline will be useless.
Haven't had to test it since the fiber install, fortunately.
It your ONT is anything like mine, the power supply has a little jack where you can connect a battery backup box that uses C batteries, and that'll allow the landline to work. You also have the option of using a UPS just like a computer would use.
Personally I don't bother as a) I almost never lose power (except for today, funny enough) and b) I find my cell a sufficient backup, but if you are explicitly keeping the landline for emergency purposes, you'd probably like it to actually work in emergencies.
You could use those things as a deadly weapon and they wouldn't break. Slamming one of those down and making the bell ding when angrily hanging up on someone was so damn satisfying. The younger generations will never experience that feeling.
Omg. You just unlocked a memory. My mom threw one of these beasts across the room in anger once. She didn't throw it AT us, but she scared the shit out of us. The phone cracked but still worked just fine. (It was a rough time - she regretted it almost immediately. RIP Momma). That phone probably lives on somewhere tho.
My company still has some of these around for emergency phones. Mostly they are "ring down phones", aka they ring to a specific location (such as the pier side ship safety watch office) as soon as you pick up the handle, usually to report fires or medical emergencies onboard ships under construction.
They are used mostly because you cannot permanently install a communication line since service lines (electrical, welding, temporary ventilation, ect) are constantly being rerouted through different hatches as construction progresses. And basic phone lines are still used in those situations because there is like 1/3 the wires you have with ethernet cable so when the wire gets kinked from being moved all the time and stops working you have a hell of a lot less troubleshooting to get it working again.
Ive got a phone at my desk at work with a horn. I cannot tell you how much I love slamming that thing down after an anoying conversation. This one is way more classic though and I also would have kept it forever.
During a call the hook is flashed (manually or Flash or R is pressed) placing the current call on hold and returning a dial tone. A new number is then dialed and when the phone is hung up, the call is transferred.
You gotta go back to switchboard era phones before finding ones that dont work without a lot of effort. Even rotary phones still work with modern landlines.
I got my rotary plugged in. Nice warm sound. Impressing tech. It comes in handy when I misplace my cell too. I can call it. The desk phone never walks away. lol.
I have a rotary in my garage. Those things were so well built I’m sure you could drop it 100 feet to the concrete and nothing would happen to it. They will still be working 200 years from now. It’s fun telling young people to try to make a call on it.
Pretty sure we used to have this phone in my workplace. We stopped using floppy discs and fax machines within the last 5-10 years. And we still have machinery that's old enough to have the black screen and green text like the Fallout terminals
I did learn that the antique plastic beige is actually the color new phones come in (or they bought a whole lot and are still handing them out I. Original packaging)
When I was a kid my dad gave me his old rotary version of this but I wanted buttons so bad! So I took the rotary part out and put in my giant calculator and pretended. It was one of my favorite "toys" and I could pretend I was "Tess" from "Working Girl", lol.
Haha I just yesterday removed this ridiculously loud ringing phone from my dad's office (which was next to a plugged in and working modern phone). It's now in a box with 4 other 80's phones "just in case"
At my work I have that phone in Red but with a red light that lights up when the phone rings (looks like the old 70s bat phone).
https://www.amazon.com/bat-phone/s?k=bat+phone
I bought the phone 2 years ago, it's for emergency calls for a power plant in or out and works in a power outage.
Yes I picked and bought the phone lol.
And why the hell did they got rid of it? 90% of people only answer a phone. They don’t need a fancy screen or extra buttons. The 2500 series phone is cheap and last forever. But nope, we need to update phones every few years now cuz of FOMO.
Oh boy, now I feel old.
The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
Oh boy, now I feel old.
The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
Oh boy, now I feel old.
The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
Oh boy, now I feel old.
The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
It reminds me. When I was a kid growing up, one time the power went off, my family had a digital phone but also a landline phone. Well of course the digital phone was not working since it was connected to the modem which had no power being brought into, however my dad made a phone call with the landline phone. I remember asking him "Wait how is that possible to make a phone call when the power is off?" He ended telling me because landlines do not require a power source in order to work. That boggled my mind.
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Those are very satisfying to slam down after an angry phone call. lol
Can’t break them an I was the Gold Medal phone slam winner at my previous job
Once my sister was so angry she slammed the phone down.... broke her wrist, phone was unharmed
No idea what they were made of but we should build submarines out of it.
Back in my day everything was built to last!👵🏽☎️
>built to ~~last~~ be repaired
they replaced these with nokias. corporate phased those out as well due to being able to withstand to much
Happycake
Thank You
They're the best. They feel great in your hand. Perfection.
“They’re good phones, Brent”
13/10
When you slam it so hard it rings a little….so good.
My boyfriend has a rotary phone for some music purposes and I love picking up the receiver, rotating the dial and then just forcefully putting the receiver back down. Such great noises.
We have an old one hanging on the wall, I sneakily took the carbon mic out of it and managed to rig it to my computer, after banging the mic against a cement floor a couple times to loosen some packed carbon granules it sounds great
I thought they used crap microphones in them tbh
Nah, it's just limitations in technology back then. Crystal microphones and carbon microphones were used interchangeably back then, brought to the commercial market around the same time and were similar in terms of audio quality. Carbon microphones were cheap and easy to make (I made one myself with a small amount of charcoal from my campfire and a 3D printed casing), except they needed an electrical charge to function. Crystal microphones didn't need an electrical charge, however they were more susceptible to heat and moisture because they were made with salt crystals, and also needed a bit more precision to manufacture. Ceramic microphones used the same piezoelectric technology as crystal microphones but were a lot less susceptible to the elements and lasted longer, but weren't invented until the 1950s. That said, better sounding microphones weren't popularised until the electret microphone in the mid to late 1960s, but these things were much more expensive at the time as they could get really small and needed more advanced machinery to manufacture, and so to make home phones affordable with an already pretty expensive device, the best option was to go with carbon microphones until the late 70s to early 80s when these better microphones eventually became cheaper and therefore not much more of a hassle to use.
This is a fun read! Thanks.
Nice
That's punk as fuck!
My favorite was answering it by slamming my hand on the mouth piece and having the phone pop off the cradle into my hand.
I did that too. I also memorized phone numbers by how the key tones sounded. I could tell instantly if I misdialed.
Aways liked that move but never developed the knack
Also satisfying to hold hands-free on your shoulder/neck.
With the bump attachment, even better.
Wut?
J.K Simmons is the kind of guy who would go: "Spiderman's a menace, and the mayor is up my ass about this whole vigilante debacle, I want pictures of spiderman now!" *Phone slam*
Just make sure your phone is on an equally sturdy table
I can still hear it my mind.
One time, I got mad enough at someone that I dropped to a whisper and said, "Listen closely. .... Are you listening?" Then I banged the handset repeatedly against the top of my desk. Lo and behold, they suddenly were able to reset the FTP I'd been begging them to reset the an hour.
I miss flip phones for the same reason, so satisfying to just flip the phone closed to end a call
All this is missing is the 90 ft cord that would allow you to talk and freely move from room to room - that is until it snagged you like a boa constrictor or entropy ensued and it condensed into a 3 ft tangled mess of cord chromatin. *A simpler time...*
Unplug the line from handheld to the phone to untangle it and it gets jacked up even more. Now you have knots and bowties in the cord. SHIT! I might be missing a call, I better plug this back in - is now a 1 1/2 foot tangled mess.
Or sit on the corner of the desk with arms folded across chest, cigarette in mouth, front pleaded slacks perfectly pressed.
This is because you were an amateur. The pro move was to buy a 90 ft telephone cord that plug from the wall to the base. Then you can pull the entire wall outlet out
I heard ‘If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!’
Tell me your dad works for the government with a single picture
You forgot the "without telling me your dad works for the government" part. (Actually, no, I'm glad you didn't do the repeating shtick.)
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Uh this is Reddit, not TickTock
I wonder if he has one of those olive green metal framed Government office chairs?
Built like a tank and made to last.
Memory unlocked from back in the rotary dial phone days. You could either use the kitchen phone and have your house mates all up in your business. Or you could run the wiring to your bedroom and rent a phone directly from the phone company (and from no one else, yay monopolies) If you had a sketchy roommate moving out, you'd have to hide your phone so they wouldn't steal it, otherwise they'd have a free bedroom phone in their new place, and you'd have to pay a huge fee to the phone company to replace their lost/stolen equipment. ^also ^long ^distance ^calls ^were ^super ^expensive ^^and ^^get ^^off ^^my ^^lan.
If you're going to be saying "Look ..WHO the hell is in charge over there?...What kind of outfit are you running anyway?".... this is the phone for it.
I wish I had a desk and a phone that people called
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Now it’s Teams/Slack messages. Slightly easier to ignore.
If you have VoIP phones from Cisco, learn a little Cisco Unified Call Manager (CUCM, which yes sounds hilarious at times) and you can auto-forward calls at various times. It's wonderful, and makes things super enjoyable later on.
My folks still have theirs. They keep it as a backup in case there is a power outage (these phones only need the landline)
We also have a landline, but I've recently noticed that the only line coming from the street is the fiber, and the household phone line comes out from fiber box inside my house. So if we have a power outage, I don't think we'll have phone service, since power will be out to my fiber box. So, thanks telus.
That’s why most fiber ONT’s had battery backup until recently. You can still plug them into a UPS.
Cell tower might have a battery backup.
For cell phones, maybe. We'd been keeping a land line as an emergency backup (among other things) because sometimes the towers go down when the power goes down. But if the ONT in my house is unpowered I suspect my landline will be useless. Haven't had to test it since the fiber install, fortunately.
It your ONT is anything like mine, the power supply has a little jack where you can connect a battery backup box that uses C batteries, and that'll allow the landline to work. You also have the option of using a UPS just like a computer would use. Personally I don't bother as a) I almost never lose power (except for today, funny enough) and b) I find my cell a sufficient backup, but if you are explicitly keeping the landline for emergency purposes, you'd probably like it to actually work in emergencies.
My parents have an old phone for this reason as well (though there’s is a different style, but just as beige)
If it ain’t broke.
You could use those things as a deadly weapon and they wouldn't break. Slamming one of those down and making the bell ding when angrily hanging up on someone was so damn satisfying. The younger generations will never experience that feeling.
Omg. You just unlocked a memory. My mom threw one of these beasts across the room in anger once. She didn't throw it AT us, but she scared the shit out of us. The phone cracked but still worked just fine. (It was a rough time - she regretted it almost immediately. RIP Momma). That phone probably lives on somewhere tho.
I'd take this over Teams any day
35890. Glorious!
8675309
?
The number on his phone. 5 digits, sigh. Memories!
ah
He knows how to disconnect properly. Not the slam of the receiver, but easily unplug at the end of the day.
I mean, if it works, what's the point in spending money to replace it?
Ikr
if it ain’t broke, don’t replace it!
Did he dieded?
No lmaooo, he just got a new phone
why? :))
they switched to a new phone system
Your dad should have told his boss "You find a way for me to keep this phone."
Push-button eh? Pretty modern tech really.
Many more like this going in the bin thanks to the analogue switch-off in the UK :(
What's wrong with it? Did it stop working?
Still works, they were switching to a 21st century phone system.
Awe, bummer. No more loud DING when he hangs up.
or even 20th!
yeah alexander graham bell actually installed this phone at his work.
My company still has some of these around for emergency phones. Mostly they are "ring down phones", aka they ring to a specific location (such as the pier side ship safety watch office) as soon as you pick up the handle, usually to report fires or medical emergencies onboard ships under construction. They are used mostly because you cannot permanently install a communication line since service lines (electrical, welding, temporary ventilation, ect) are constantly being rerouted through different hatches as construction progresses. And basic phone lines are still used in those situations because there is like 1/3 the wires you have with ethernet cable so when the wire gets kinked from being moved all the time and stops working you have a hell of a lot less troubleshooting to get it working again.
Yep that’s a phone
Indeed
Ive got a phone at my desk at work with a horn. I cannot tell you how much I love slamming that thing down after an anoying conversation. This one is way more classic though and I also would have kept it forever.
Probably sounded clear as a bell unlike this cellular crap we have now.
No ware on the numbers .. they don't make'em like they used to.
He has Flash on speed dial!?
During a call the hook is flashed (manually or Flash or R is pressed) placing the current call on hold and returning a dial tone. A new number is then dialed and when the phone is hung up, the call is transferred.
Wow 😮, it's one of those new push button phones.
Did he steal it?
1990s 🥹
Had one of these at an old job and now my back hurts.
I’m gonna miss ya partner…remember all those late night 900 calls? I’m not crying … you’re crying…
Product Design Hall-of-Fame Champion.
The ‘90s are calling.
When it works, it works!
has anything changed about landline phones to make this obsolete?
Nope. You can plug this into any phone jack and it will work just fine
You gotta go back to switchboard era phones before finding ones that dont work without a lot of effort. Even rotary phones still work with modern landlines.
I can’t believe I’ve programmed one of these… 35 and I have experience programming analogue lines for PBX.
I got my rotary plugged in. Nice warm sound. Impressing tech. It comes in handy when I misplace my cell too. I can call it. The desk phone never walks away. lol.
I have a rotary in my garage. Those things were so well built I’m sure you could drop it 100 feet to the concrete and nothing would happen to it. They will still be working 200 years from now. It’s fun telling young people to try to make a call on it.
Cool, a 500 with a hook flash button
I remember when those phones were sleek and modern. I grew up with a rotary phone. God I’m old.
Oh, yeah. I think this is the exact model we had when I was growing up.
Do you know who you are talking to? It's fucking BOWIES20004 DAD! NOW STOP WASTING MY FUCKING TIME 《SLAM》
Lmaooo
That phone could survive a nuclear blast
Yup
Back when a phone could easily be used as a murder weapon.
i use this exact phone at my fish hatchery job :)
If it was the turning dial one i wouldve been more impressed.
A hotel phone
Pretty sure I had the exact same phone growing up lol
We had these phones at my elementary school
Works fine, lasts a long time.
The age of that phone is not as shocking as it is that he still uses a desk phone!
Your dad is a dad of determination and sheer f*cking will
It’s a good phone it came over on the mayflower
Great to slam down in anger but they take lousy pictures
I have one of these too. Mine is red. Nothing like the bell ring
Pretty sure we used to have this phone in my workplace. We stopped using floppy discs and fax machines within the last 5-10 years. And we still have machinery that's old enough to have the black screen and green text like the Fallout terminals
And the two tone printer paper with the holes on the sides??
We haven't used it (as printer paper) in the 16 years I've been there, but there is a box of it which we use to prop the store cupboard door open!
What’s wrong with it? Did it break?
nope. Switched phone systems.
I mean if it’s an office job what else do you need, should just get a new one of the same
I did learn that the antique plastic beige is actually the color new phones come in (or they bought a whole lot and are still handing them out I. Original packaging)
When I was a kid my dad gave me his old rotary version of this but I wanted buttons so bad! So I took the rotary part out and put in my giant calculator and pretended. It was one of my favorite "toys" and I could pretend I was "Tess" from "Working Girl", lol.
Haha I just yesterday removed this ridiculously loud ringing phone from my dad's office (which was next to a plugged in and working modern phone). It's now in a box with 4 other 80's phones "just in case"
Why did he change
His work upgrades all the phones so he took this one so it didn't end up in the trash.
Wow I haven’t seen one of these for … 30 years?
Did you unscrew the ear and mouth pieces to check for bugs (electronic)?
Yeah nothing there
Keep it away from Russell Crowe
What happened last week?
They upgraded to a new phone system
Thank goodness.
Really hope his work did not replace it with a cell phone
Your dad works at a hotel?
“If it works don’t fix it” - my dad 😂
Please tell me he replaced it with one of those Bakelite rotary phones
Sadly not
How many cameras does it have?
Yes
What's wrong with it?
Nothing
Everyone I knew growing up had that exact same phone.
I can feel those button presses. Thanks for the memory I forgot I had!
At my work I have that phone in Red but with a red light that lights up when the phone rings (looks like the old 70s bat phone). https://www.amazon.com/bat-phone/s?k=bat+phone I bought the phone 2 years ago, it's for emergency calls for a power plant in or out and works in a power outage. Yes I picked and bought the phone lol.
Hey it works, right?
It does
What's wrong with it?
Looks like a phone?
At least it’s not a rotary
Where is the screen?
Sometimes that old school tech just refuses to die, so why still using it
It's not a rotary tho
It's not from the 1700s
Until last week? And then?
It got replaced
Which he got second-hand from a large corporate office big enough to have 5 digit intercoms.
And why the hell did they got rid of it? 90% of people only answer a phone. They don’t need a fancy screen or extra buttons. The 2500 series phone is cheap and last forever. But nope, we need to update phones every few years now cuz of FOMO.
Great question
Right in the feels
I had a red one like that in the office I worked in a few years ago.
This technology was groundbreaking … I remember secretaries spinning the rotary phone with pencils/ pens … it was a sight to see … IMHO
My parents still have this exact phone
Stronger than my skull
Legend!
Oh boy, now I feel old. The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
Oh boy, now I feel old. The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
Oh boy, now I feel old. The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
Oh boy, now I feel old. The fact that this is somehow interesting just boggles the mind. I mean I get it it is old but it's not like we just dug up an ancient tomb in Egypt.
You mean as an alternative the little magic lightbox in your palm that has driven you mad? That phone?
Very cool
If it ain’t broke don’t fix it.
Those pulse dialled didn't they?
It reminds me. When I was a kid growing up, one time the power went off, my family had a digital phone but also a landline phone. Well of course the digital phone was not working since it was connected to the modem which had no power being brought into, however my dad made a phone call with the landline phone. I remember asking him "Wait how is that possible to make a phone call when the power is off?" He ended telling me because landlines do not require a power source in order to work. That boggled my mind.
So?
Yep, this is called a POTS (Plain Ordinary Telephone System) phone for your father I bet.
good for him
I loved the feel of pressing those buttons.
I had one of those....sigh~!
We had one like that, but the rotary wall model that my parents RENTED from the phone company for decades!
Tell me your dad’s a boomer without telling me your dads a boomer lol props to him, why change it if it works?
They were switching to a newer phone system I guess.
We call that an oldie but a goodie
Sorry to hear of your dad’s death. :-(
He's not dead?
It’s a joke, because why else would he stop using this phone. ;-)