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To: null and void

That looks like the phone we had when I was a kid in the ‘60s. Do you remember the phones that were out for a while in the early ‘80s that had push buttons but still worked as rotary phones? You’d push 7, say, and it would make seven little clicks like rotary phones did. They didn’t work for any of the touch-tone things, either.


83 posted on 09/03/2023 1:24:42 PM PDT by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: HartleyMBaldwin

Yup, and on a phone “0” isn’t “0”, it’s “10”.


87 posted on 09/03/2023 1:33:12 PM PDT by null and void (It's 10 o'clock, does the president know where he is?)
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To: HartleyMBaldwin
I still have a phone that my Dad had in his garage.

“Cobra” brand. Funny looking thing. There was a button on it so if you just set it down (or slid it into the wall bracket) it would hang up.

Anyway.... it has a switch on it so you can go from touch tone to pulse dialing if you happen to move to 1974.

146 posted on 09/03/2023 7:06:44 PM PDT by ExGeeEye (For dark is the suede that mows like a harvest.)
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