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Post by Guest Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:40 pm

Have you ever used a Rotary telephone? Rotate-antique-telephones-vintage-telephone-dial-European-telephone-Creative-telephones

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Post by The Call of the Wendigo Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:45 pm

I've never had one. I want one of those weird, 1970s vertical phones that have the dial on the bottom. Excited

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Post by The Call of the Wendigo Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:47 pm

They're called Ericofons. gasp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericofon

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Post by Guest Sun Jan 13, 2019 6:56 pm

Oh, I thought you meant one of these:

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Post by Guest Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:00 pm

lol 70s

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Post by Guest Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:03 pm

When I was a little baby Stevebaby we had one of these:

Have you ever used a Rotary telephone? 1024px-746_telephone_in_ivory

I wasn't allowed anywhere near it. because it cost 10p every 3 seconds or something. A fortune at the time.

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Post by Guest Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:05 pm

Actually, that still sounds like a lot of money. sad yes

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Post by Guest Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:12 pm

Steviebaby wrote:When I was a little baby Stevebaby we had one of these:

Have you ever used a Rotary telephone? 1024px-746_telephone_in_ivory

I wasn't allowed anywhere near it. because it cost 10p every 3 seconds or something. A fortune at the time.

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I just remembered, I would unscrew the speaker, or was it the bit you spoke into? and check to see if it had any secret bugs fitted! Excited Just like they did in the spy films!

28 I was. etc etc...

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Post by The Call of the Wendigo Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:23 pm

Steviebaby wrote:I just remembered, I would unscrew the speaker, or was it the bit you spoke into? and check to see if it had any secret bugs fitted! Excited Just like they did in the spy films!
And did it? Excited

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Post by Fangirl Three Sun Jan 13, 2019 7:26 pm

Steviebaby wrote:When I was a little baby Stevebaby we had one of these:

Have you ever used a Rotary telephone? 1024px-746_telephone_in_ivory

We had that one too, except wall mounted, until I was nearly 18. It was replaced on May 3rd 1988 according to the Fangirl Diaries.

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Post by Guest Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:20 pm

The Call of the Wendigo wrote:
Steviebaby wrote:I just remembered, I would unscrew the speaker, or was it the bit you spoke into? and check to see if it had any secret bugs fitted! Excited Just like they did in the spy films!
And did it? Excited

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Post by Butterfield Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:40 pm

We had one like the white one above, only in light yellow. It was the upstairs phone. The downstairs phone was like the brown one above, only in white, and with a rotary dial.
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Post by Butterfield Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:41 pm

Exactly like this one, a Trimphone. happy


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I remember coming back off holiday, in I think 1990, and the replacement phone had been delivered. I wish we had kept the Trimphone. bawl
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Post by Butterfield Sun Jan 13, 2019 9:45 pm

This was the ultra modern replacement. It had many exciting features, such as actual buttons, memory recall, the storing of phone numbers and... not much else really.


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Post by Fangirl Three Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:42 am

Gosh, we had that one too.

I've just remembered, it had pulse dialling instead of tone, so when you pressed 0 you'd hear ten little quick clicks just as if you'd dialled 0 on the old phone.

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Post by Nightjar Mon Jan 14, 2019 10:40 am

B&O and Samsung collaborated on a rotary mobile phone. yes

The Serene...

Have you ever used a Rotary telephone? Bang-olufsen-samsung-serene-2005-lovefone-london

It costs about £1000.


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Post by Butterfield Mon Jan 14, 2019 1:08 pm

Fangirl Three wrote:Gosh, we had that one too.

I think it was the standard BT fare.
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Post by Nightjar Mon Jan 14, 2019 5:06 pm

It's a shame that many of these phones aren't more beige.

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Post by Nik Tue Jan 15, 2019 12:48 pm

Yes, we inherited one as the upstairs phone. I recall finding it quite perplexing
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Post by cosmictanya Thu Aug 22, 2019 12:05 am

I'm late to the party.

Yes of course. My grandparents had a red one. I thought it looked very Soviet - must've seen it on a film or news report. It felt quite exciting to use for that reason. It was kept in the hallway, because they thought other telephone locations were common. Latterly we bought them a set of cordless phones - that remained in its cradle in the hallway at all times, and the extras were hidden in a cupboard unused, because of the same. I will post the gold stick dialing tool we always used to avoid germs. I have it now. At their apartment the phone was a grayish two tone colour. Also in the hall with its own table and integrated seat.

My mothers was cream/white and was on the kitchen wall. It felt very modern in comparison to be able to chat away in the kitchen, on the bar stool, with things around you in stretching distance to eat and drink.

Several years ago in Mauretania I was so thrilled when I was shown my hotel room to see that my bedside phone was a rotary dial that I immediately sat down to start calling people instead of going out.

I didn't know they were called rotary telephones. I just knew them as telephones.
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