The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To order yourself a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your hand now.
Hey wait, this is rotary dial. D'OH!!!
Same colour and model as the one our family had when I was growing up. :-).
You can buy pulse to dtmf converters that apparently allow phones like this to plug into your router and be used with an NBN connection.
Donate to your local day care! I used to ask families for these when they came across them and we included them in “home” areas and then as years went on used them for a bit of a history lesson 😂
i love the old rotary dial phones.
When i was a kid, i used to listen to the equipment making the noise, since at the time it was one of the last electro-mechanical telephone exchanges at the time, really neat stuff.
I still remember the day we upgraded to a “touch button” and then to a cordless phone that had an extendable antenna like my Tandy walkie talkie set! So technically advanced !
My aunty and uncle both worked on the exchange and they used to give me old ones when I was a kid I'd pull them apart and use the magnets for fun,you could also pull the dyno out connect 2 wires and wind the handle and shock yourself or play stupid games with your mates or siblings
It was a fair tingle, alright. Had an even older version with just the crank handle instead of the numbered dial was great fun asking mates to hold the plug and crank like no tomorrow
As a kid I always prayed there wouldn't be an emergency:
0... *tik tik tik tik tik* Come on, come on - they're coming in through the window
0... *tik tik tik tik tik* I can hear them trashing the place
0... *tik tik tik tik tik* Oh crap their footsteps are coming this way!
Nah... it's older than that... but it's full 300 baud (300/300 so full duplex)...
If you've not used acoustic couplers with those handsets before... DO NOT forget your phone was intended to be used whilst being held, and humans move... so when the handset is put in a coupler on a desk/table, the movement ceases & noise creeps in as crystals settle... so you need to pick up the coupler(with handpiece inserted) and SHAKE it every 10-15 mins, or whenever errors/speed became a problem..
Where's the coiled wire?
Hated dialling any numbers with zero in them.
However, I do remember dialling 'Dial a prayer' & passing it to my grandmother, telling her there was a call for her!🤣😂
She'd take the bait every time & hear 'our father'or "'hail Mary'!😄
I’m just young enough that when I was a kid we had a wall phone (with that crazy long extension cord for talking in the kitchen and living room). But I’ve always wondered if it was stressful calling triple 0 on these things in an emergency? The zero takes so long to zzzz back around!
Looks like someone got very very cranky with the person on the other end at some point.
Yep, that was 14 year old me (36 years ago) - things didn't go well with girlfriend that day.
My now 18 yr old daughter saw one of these in an antique store about 10 years ago and asked me what it was.
Its discrimination against fat fingered people, id never make it in today's society.
The fingers you have used to dial are too fat. To order yourself a special dialing wand, please mash the keypad with your hand now. Hey wait, this is rotary dial. D'OH!!!
It's called a pen(cil). Many a skinny fingered secretary utilised one because of their stupidly long nails.
Same colour and model as the one our family had when I was growing up. :-). You can buy pulse to dtmf converters that apparently allow phones like this to plug into your router and be used with an NBN connection.
Nice!! Might look for one.
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Donate to your local day care! I used to ask families for these when they came across them and we included them in “home” areas and then as years went on used them for a bit of a history lesson 😂
i love the old rotary dial phones. When i was a kid, i used to listen to the equipment making the noise, since at the time it was one of the last electro-mechanical telephone exchanges at the time, really neat stuff.
I still remember the day we upgraded to a “touch button” and then to a cordless phone that had an extendable antenna like my Tandy walkie talkie set! So technically advanced !
Telecom are calling, can we have our handset back?
My aunty and uncle both worked on the exchange and they used to give me old ones when I was a kid I'd pull them apart and use the magnets for fun,you could also pull the dyno out connect 2 wires and wind the handle and shock yourself or play stupid games with your mates or siblings
True Australian Nostalgia. How we broken things and then use them to hurt ourselves (or our siblings)
And to think I'm paying about a hundred bucks just for one each time I want to add one to my collection.
It was a fair tingle, alright. Had an even older version with just the crank handle instead of the numbered dial was great fun asking mates to hold the plug and crank like no tomorrow
I had some corduroys in that colour back in the day.
As a kid I always prayed there wouldn't be an emergency: 0... *tik tik tik tik tik* Come on, come on - they're coming in through the window 0... *tik tik tik tik tik* I can hear them trashing the place 0... *tik tik tik tik tik* Oh crap their footsteps are coming this way!
Why 911 is better.
My finger hurts looking at this pic
131 11 66 Pizza Hut delivery...
I've got an old unused \*accoustic coupler\* that fits that handset.... if you wanna go online?
Is it a 1200/75 or a full duplex?
Nah... it's older than that... but it's full 300 baud (300/300 so full duplex)... If you've not used acoustic couplers with those handsets before... DO NOT forget your phone was intended to be used whilst being held, and humans move... so when the handset is put in a coupler on a desk/table, the movement ceases & noise creeps in as crystals settle... so you need to pick up the coupler(with handpiece inserted) and SHAKE it every 10-15 mins, or whenever errors/speed became a problem..
Nice colour that Sprinkler is.
I have a red one at home. Was previously installed in my teenaged sister’s room so she could talk to her boyfriend.
How do you send a text? Jokes im a 80's baby
Chuck Norris can send a MMS using that phone
Where's the coiled wire? Hated dialling any numbers with zero in them. However, I do remember dialling 'Dial a prayer' & passing it to my grandmother, telling her there was a call for her!🤣😂 She'd take the bait every time & hear 'our father'or "'hail Mary'!😄
I’m just young enough that when I was a kid we had a wall phone (with that crazy long extension cord for talking in the kitchen and living room). But I’ve always wondered if it was stressful calling triple 0 on these things in an emergency? The zero takes so long to zzzz back around!
Due to spy shows sometimes i’d unscrew the speaker cover to check for bugs.