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"ttyymmnn" (ttyymmnn) 11/08/2016 at 14:19 • Filed to: None

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In other news, who remembers dial phones?

CB > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:23

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We still have one at the cottage. I love it.

yamahog > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:24

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We had one of these growing up:

and the telephone number written on it had a 212 area code and not nearly enough digits for modern use

ttyymmnn > yamahog 11/08/2016 at 14:26

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Long after the arrival of the touch-tone phone, I still had an old dial phone in my room, the same one you pictured (except in black). My friend, whom I called often, had a number that ended in 2999.

extraspecialbitter > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:27

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The only phone numbers I remember now are ones from before the age of cell phones.

TheHondaBro > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:27

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Forget dial phones, who here remembers the original Motorola Razr?

ttyymmnn > TheHondaBro 11/08/2016 at 14:28

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Forget the Razr, here’s my first phone.

TheTurbochargedSquirrel > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:29

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What about car phones?

Yes that is my old car, no I don’t still have the phone (it was left with the seller). It does still have 4 holes in the center console and under certain light you can see where the antenna was on the rear window though.

TheHondaBro > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:29

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Verizon is still trying to figure out how they can charge you for using that.

ttyymmnn > TheTurbochargedSquirrel 11/08/2016 at 14:31

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I had one of these:

/not really

ttyymmnn > extraspecialbitter 11/08/2016 at 14:35

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That’s actually one of the major drawbacks I see with modern technology. We don’t have to remember anything any more. Phone number? Just hit the face of the person you want to call. Important dates? Hit the calendar. Don’t remember history? There’s google for that. Our brains are turning to pudding.

extraspecialbitter > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:37

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I have no idea what you just said.

ttyymmnn > extraspecialbitter 11/08/2016 at 14:38

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Seriously?

extraspecialbitter > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:40

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No. I was merely playing to your description of pudding-brain.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:44

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Ha! I totally forgot about those.

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 14:45

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My grandparents still had dial phones when I was little.

ttyymmnn > extraspecialbitter 11/08/2016 at 14:46

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I thought so, but I wasn’t sure.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 11/08/2016 at 14:48

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I kind of miss them. But you know how much I like history. They were damned bulletproof. And with powered lines, your phone always worked even when the power went out. And they didn’t have batteries that needed recharging. And you could use them as a weapon. How many TV shows did we see in the 70s where somebody killed the bad guy by braining them with that phone?

Rusty Vandura - www.tinyurl.com/keepoppo > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 15:08

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I have one in my living room, connected via Ooma... Can’t dial out though.

AuthiCooper1300 > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 15:46

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It was in the very, very early 90s.

I remember waiting at a pedestrian crossing and seeing this rather dilapidated pale green Méhari stopping nearby, its ABS shell scorched and cracked and crazed by the sun and whitened by the rain.

Now this is when in that particular corner of the woods mobile phones had just started appearing, most cars having something the size of a 43 Ah battery with a handset on top.

This wag, an obvious Luddite with a warped sense of humour, had somehow affixed a big, black, bakelite wall phone with rotary-dial (itself a good twenty or thirty years older than the car) to the driver’s side (plastic!) B-pillar (which was probably less than a third of the width of the phone).

Needless to say, as a visual joke it was priceless.

Two pictures for those not conversant with Citroën’s tiny twins and/or old telephones.

(Images pinched from http://www.citrobe.org/mh82f.htm and http://www.antiquetelephones.name/wall/vintage-Ericsson-wall-telephone.html )

shop-teacher > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 15:48

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I miss powered hard wired phones that were touch tone, but I don’t miss the dials.

ttyymmnn > AuthiCooper1300 11/08/2016 at 15:49

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Sounds awesome.

ttyymmnn > shop-teacher 11/08/2016 at 15:51

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I came from Virginia, where the joke goes, “How many Virginians does it take to change a lightbulb? Five. One to change it, and four to talk about how good the old one was.”

AuthiCooper1300 > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 15:56

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Believe me, it was.

Now the best joke would be to actually have the blower connected to a real mobile phone - and being able to make and receive calls with it.

ttyymmnn > AuthiCooper1300 11/08/2016 at 15:57

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“blower”

AuthiCooper1300 > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 16:02

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Sorry, the temptation was too great.

ttyymmnn > AuthiCooper1300 11/08/2016 at 16:09

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This is/was actually a thing:

AuthiCooper1300 > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 16:16

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Yes, but does it have a proper ringing bell? Also - no dial. Where is the fun in that?

ttyymmnn > AuthiCooper1300 11/08/2016 at 16:29

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No fun, but much easier to cradle the handset between your ear and shoulder. That’s actually one of the things I dislike about modern smart phones.

AuthiCooper1300 > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 17:15

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Point taken.

Having said that - who remembers phone dials?

(taken from the Rennlist - actual photographer is Karl Ludvigsen)

ttyymmnn > AuthiCooper1300 11/08/2016 at 17:27

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When I was 10 years old, I didn’t like that car. I preferred the 924. As I grew older, and wiser, I repented of the sins of my youth.

AuthiCooper1300 > ttyymmnn 11/08/2016 at 17:37

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I think the 924 is a handsome car. Particularly once it got the 944's engine (more or less, half a 928 engine). Having said that I feel strangely attracted to the 924 Turbo. Maybe because of Mr Barth’s antics in the Monte Carlo and Safari rallies with his own, private 924/924 Turbo.

Probably the first serious article I ever read about cars was about the then-new 928 in Popular Mechanics. It is such a fine automobile... I am sure its time will come. It’s just that we (or most of us) are not able to “see” it yet.