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propbeanie · 02-09-17, 08:21 PM

Ah yesh, I remember them well... Our home phone was much noiser than that, and actually "clicked" as it "rebounded". You could hear the pulses on the line. Good times. Good times...

Had to wait another forty years for them to come back... but using bluetooth?...

Onkel Neal · 02-09-17, 09:08 PM

I used to be so impatient I would force the dial back around instead of letting it turn on its own.

Oberon · 02-09-17, 10:41 PM

That's brilliant!

I wonder how they got that to work? Bluetooth or the device touch ability that my phone has said something about but I've not really understood it (something about being able to transfer stuff across if two devices are next to each other, can only presume it's some kind of extremely local connection).

They had quite a bit of weight to them too, those old Bakelite phones, but the receiver made a nice clunk when you put it back down, or if the call had not gone so well, slammed it back down. You can't really slam a mobile down, or a cordless phone...the price of technology I guess.

fumo30 · 02-10-17, 11:48 AM

Man, such a lovely gadget!

I kind a miss those old wire telephones. No dead batteries, they lasted forever and many beautiful designs were available.

AVGWarhawk · 02-10-17, 11:55 AM

Ah yes...the old way of communicating. I recall having to dial a number to get the exact time. Another number for weather. And yet another number to check on school closings due to snow. We were kicking it when we got a new Slimline Touchtone! Sheesh....we have come a long way.

Gargamel · 02-10-17, 07:14 PM

It's just a rotary encoder on a spring with a stop, attached to an arduino with a BT chip. I got all the components, minus the spring, on my parts rack in front of me.

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I do have a couple unused mouse traps, I could use those springs. I'm afraid the dial may take your finger off though Neal.

vienna · 02-11-17, 04:53 AM

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Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

Ah yes...the old way of communicating. I recall having to dial a number to get the exact time. Another number for weather. And yet another number to check on school closings due to snow. We were kicking it when we got a new Slimline Touchtone! Sheesh....we have come a long way.

Not to forget other "Dial-A-" services: Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Joke, Dial-A-Poem, etc. Apart from the dial phones themselves, what I miss are the old phone numbers where the first two characters were letters, usually the first two letters of a location; growing up in San Francisco, you could tell where a number was generally located in the city by the two letter designation: MA=Market (Downtown SF), PO=Portrero (Portrero District), and so on. There were even some designations for specific services: if you wanted to call a Yellow Cab (a bit of a luxury in the 1950s), the number was TU5-1234, with the TU standing for "Tuxedo". Somehow, area codes just don't have the same 'human feel' as those old neighborhood letter codes...

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fumo30 · 02-11-17, 07:26 AM

Anybody remember chat lines that were a type of precursor of todays web forums?

They were initially pretty polular and going was chaotic especially at weekend night times. Lot of linetrolls disturbing chatting, but if i don't remember, wrong there were kinda moderation too kicking the trolls out of the line and also private lines for decent people wanting good conversation.

02-09-17, 08:21 PM	#1
propbeanie CTD - it's not just a job Join Date: May 2016 Location: One hour from Music City USA! Posts: 10,098 Downloads: 451 Uploads: 2	Ah yesh, I remember them well... Our home phone was much noiser than that, and actually "clicked" as it "rebounded". You could hear the pulses on the line. Good times. Good times... Had to wait another forty years for them to come back... but using bluetooth?... __________________ "...and bollocks to the naysayers" - Jimbuna

02-09-17, 09:08 PM	#2
Onkel Neal Born to Run Silent Join Date: Jan 1997 Location: Cougar Trap, Texas Posts: 21,385 Downloads: 541 Uploads: 224	I used to be so impatient I would force the dial back around instead of letting it turn on its own. __________________ SUBSIM - 26 Years on the Web

02-10-17, 11:55 AM	#5
AVGWarhawk Lucky Jack Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: In a 1954 Buick. Posts: 28,261 Downloads: 90 Uploads: 0	Ah yes...the old way of communicating. I recall having to dial a number to get the exact time. Another number for weather. And yet another number to check on school closings due to snow. We were kicking it when we got a new Slimline Touchtone! Sheesh....we have come a long way. __________________ “You're painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture.” ― Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

02-10-17, 07:14 PM	#6
Gargamel Lucky Sailor Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Rome Posts: 4,273 Downloads: 81 Uploads: 0	It's just a rotary encoder on a spring with a stop, attached to an arduino with a BT chip. I got all the components, minus the spring, on my parts rack in front of me. . I do have a couple unused mouse traps, I could use those springs. I'm afraid the dial may take your finger off though Neal. __________________ Luck is a residue of Design.

02-09-17, 10:41 PM	#3
Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	That's brilliant! I wonder how they got that to work? Bluetooth or the device touch ability that my phone has said something about but I've not really understood it (something about being able to transfer stuff across if two devices are next to each other, can only presume it's some kind of extremely local connection). They had quite a bit of weight to them too, those old Bakelite phones, but the receiver made a nice clunk when you put it back down, or if the call had not gone so well, slammed it back down. You can't really slam a mobile down, or a cordless phone...the price of technology I guess.

02-10-17, 11:48 AM	#4
fumo30 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 872 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Man, such a lovely gadget! I kind a miss those old wire telephones. No dead batteries, they lasted forever and many beautiful designs were available.

02-11-17, 07:26 AM	#8
fumo30 Grey Wolf Join Date: Jan 2016 Posts: 872 Downloads: 15 Uploads: 0	Anybody remember chat lines that were a type of precursor of todays web forums? They were initially pretty polular and going was chaotic especially at weekend night times. Lot of linetrolls disturbing chatting, but if i don't remember, wrong there were kinda moderation too kicking the trolls out of the line and also private lines for decent people wanting good conversation.