Re: Object

On Tue, 20 May 2008 07:32:43 +0100, HVS <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>On 19 May 2008, Greg Goss wrote
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>> HVS <usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> 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? 
>>> 
>>> I wish you well with it, but I've got one stored in the loft
>>> that I really should sell one day -- nice Bakelite job,
>>> modernised, works fine (UK phone system).
>>> 
>>> We bought it in the mid 1980s and used it for about 10 years --
>>> but you know what?  It's a pain, particularly for redialling
>>> busy numbers like ticket lines, overseas calls at Christmas, 
>>> understaffed customer service desks, whatever.
>>> 
>>> It sounds like a little thing, but when you've just redialled a
>>> 12- digit overseas number for the dozenth or so time, rotary
>>> dial phones become a seriously annoying PITA.
>>> 
>>> (We bought a cordless;  kept the rotary on display for some
>>> time;  then admitted that we never used it and wouldn't.  It's
>>> in a box, somewhere.)
>> 
>> My mother got a letter from her telco that rotary dial phones
>> would no longer be sup****ted after a particular date.  That
>> would have been sometime in 98 or early 99.
>
>That makes sense -- I'm sure they'd still work, though.


It may be just about that long since my Mom finally got a touchtone
phone in her kitchen.  The rotary dial there has to have been the last
one I ever used.  Used to drive me nuts, because certain numbers I
knew by feel, not by number, on a keypad.

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