Re: Object

Opus the Penguin wrote:
> Veronique (veroniqueunique@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> 
>> On May 17, 3:52 pm, jeffinputnam <jeffinput...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>> Bill Turlock wrote:
>>>> (or symbol?)
>>>> Likely most here will identify this:
>>>> http://tinyurl.com/4zdsva
>>> This makes me feel very old. It's a hole insert for a 45rpm
>>> record. 
>>>
>>> Sheesh. Next thing you know folks will be asking me to read the
>>> frigging clocks for them.
>>>
>>> J
>>>
>>> (who misses real dial telephones)
>>
>>
>> I've got my eye on a rotary phone from the 30s. There's a local
>> guy who rewires them so they'll plug into a regular jack and sells
>> 'em for about $90. Li'l bit steep, but what price love?
>>
> 
> That would be cool. But I suddenly thought of something cooler.
> 
> How about one of those phones that doesn't have a dialing mechanism 
> at all? They could program in an operator that asks you what party 
> you would like to call and uses voice recognition to parse the 
> answer.
> 
> One of these two would work:
> 
> <http://www.whatistruth.info/oldphone.html>

When I was growing up, my dad had one of these that actually worked. 
Someone had installed a (rotary) dialing mechanism inside the wooden 
box, so you could dial out as well as answer the phone on it.

Mary