Worked well when the rotary dial was physically locked.
Posted on 07/07/2024 4:44:37 PM PDT by DallasBiff
I had a rotary phone until the mid 1990’s. Worked flawlessly.
Push buttons were nice but the biggest improvement for me was moving from a party line to private in the mid 1980’s.
We had a rotary dial wall phone also. And for awhile we were on a party line.
Remember when a long distance call cost more than a local call? 😏
Saw a rotary dial phone in a thrift store this weekend. My wife asked if it would work in our house if we activated the house line (long ago disconnected). I told her I honestly didn’t know...didn’t know if changes had been made to data transfer in current landlines. I really only thought about buying it for one of the grandchildren as a toy.
Worked well when the rotary dial was physically locked.
lol, close...
You are correct. As the term is commonly understood: “A digital signal is a signal that represents data as a sequence of discrete values; at any given time it can only take on, at most, one of a finite number of values.”
Sounds like the on/off signaling of pulse/rotary dialing to me.
Morse code is also a digital signal.
Most of the days of Bell Labs existence, there was no shortage of smarties working there.
They did lots of good work.
And how pissed you got when you got a number wrong and had to start over?
Especially when you were trying to be the tenth caller in order to win tickets or something off the radio.
Do you remember those cheap phones they had in the 80s with a push button keypad like a touch-tone phone..but they could only do pulse dialing? As I recall, the extra two buttons (used for # and * on a touch tone phone), one of them did redial and the other did mute. They were probably all made in the same factory using the same circuitry. They were also designed to hang up by setting them on a flat surface, so cheap they didn’t even come with a base.
These were the ones you got for free when you opened a checking account or got a 2-year subscription to Sports Illustrated.
When I was a kid in the 80s I got a couple of them and a 9V battery and made an intercom. Back then they were the only kind of cheap phones a kid was gonna get to make something like that.
Pentagon City was founded in 1946, when developers Morris Cafritz and Charles H. Tompkins acquired a 190-acre site of empty fields and commercial warehouses for $1.5 million.[2][3] A Western Electric telephone manufacturing facility opened in the 1950s and was later converted into a small shopping mall known as "Pentagon Centre." In the 1960s, high-rise apartment buildings were erected on Hayes, Fern, and Joyce Streets.
Incorrect. The dial mechanism generates a series of pulses which corresponds to the degree of rotation of the dial before it is released to return to its home position. The more it is rotated, the more pulses it generates.
It was not a manufacturing facility. It was a refurbishing plant.
“We processed all the phone equipment that was removed from houses and businesses within the C&P area, which included the District of Columbia, parts of Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, and Delaware.”
http://cowboyfrank.net/telephones/weco/index.htm
It also had nothing to do with the demand for telephones from the Pentagon.
Additionally, Western Electric did not consider it a manufacturing plant, as it was not on their 1967 list of manufacturing plants:
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