Introducing The Rotary Cell Phone

35 Comments on Introducing The Rotary Cell Phone

1. https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/c2/63/1d/c2631db8fe5d14946e0219081ea06ed7.jpg

2. Patent Pending by Rube Goldberg Inc.

   Wow.

3. I remember using a rotary phone to enter radio station dial-in contests.
   7……3….8……..W………A….K……..Y…..
   At least we didn’t have to dial the area code too.

4. Wow, you gotta be really old. Let me guess, Wolf Man Jack.

5. At least I didn’t have to climb a telephone pole like Oliver Douglass…

6. The whole world would smell better with rotary phones…

7. I just long for the old days, like before women and minorities could vote.
   🙂

8. Loco, lol, all women except IOTW women. You made me laugh on that one pal

9. ‘member??????????

10. That hook would get caught up in my beard. Guess that’s a hand’s free feature?

    I used to know all the dtmf tone frequencies. Fck’n nerdy, eh?

11. I had a ‘phone’ in a brief case in the 70’s.

12. You guys hear Van Halen? I sure did!

    🤘😎🤘

13. Nice Save, Brad.
    We’ll let him live, now.

14. sistyugler1,

    It’s not the first time. I’m always saving Locos ass.

15. One good thing about the rotary phone days was you didn’t get calls from your drunk friends and family. By the the time they were trying to dial the third digit they would say, ‘Ahh, f-ck it!” and hang up.

16. Another good thing about the old phones is that you didn’t get butt calls from their pockets.

    /Those were the days:)

17. Perspective, Anthony Weiner could pocket dial. Just sayen.

18. Unruly,
    But do you know what DTMF
    stands for ???

19. We still had rotary phones when I was in high school (1966 graduate), and the big, YUGE deal was the introduction of the princess phone. That was when all the high school girls started whining for a phone in their bedrooms.

    Side note: my mother and my sister were both born in Norton Virginia, and my grandmother lived there until she passed away. We couldn’t call her directly but had to go through the Norton operator and ask for Norton 7. That’s right, my grandmother’s phone number was 7.

20. The weiner dictaphone, yup.

    /but jees he always had his hand in his pants, eh

21. Does it come with a really really long cord that will reach the bathroom?

22. RADIOATIONMAN, dual tone multi feature? Or don’t talk (to) mother f*****ers?

23. Unruly,
    Kewl! That’s how Jobs and Woz got started. Did you pirate long distance calls, too? heh,heh

24. sistyugler1, we were kind of low-tech and had to use steel washers with tape over the holes for pay phones. But you could use frequencies to make free calls. Never did that.

25. RADIOATIONMAN, I just looked it up. Frequency, not feature. Been a few years, or decades. Bet you have a different meaning for it?

26. Pre-pushbutton pay phones simply had three gongs/bells inside. Nickels made one tone, dimes, another, and quarters made a deep gong sound when you dropped them in the slot. Long distance operators simply counted the tones to know how much money you had deposited.

    It was easy to find three light bulbs that closely matched three coin bells. Tape the right bulbs on the handpiece and you were good to call just about anywhere. I would be ashamed of admitting to doing that, but those were the days of govt-enforce monopoly phone service with outrageously high long distance prices set by your typical bureaucrats. So screw ’em.

27. Dang. Not tape, that’d be silly. You’d TAP the right bulb to get the right sound.

    Dang fingers.

28. Lol, you had me wondering what the hey, Uncle Al.

29. I watched a guy use a paper clip to make a free call once. He stuck one end in the microphone and the other he shorted out to the metal on the phone. And it worked, no money.

30. Uncle Al,
    A the beauty of it was if people say a young man with a bunch of light bulbs they would assume it was a boy scout trying to raise money for a good cause!

31. DTMF – Originally, Dual Tone Metallic Frequency.
    No, not Metallica Frequency…

32. Woulda been more interesting if the ahole wasn’t stoned.

33. @LocoBlancoSaltine November 5, 2016 at 11:16 pm

    I long for the gooder older days when people weren’t proud to be stupid.

34. In 1963, when I first visited my new parents-in-law in Blagdburg, PA, I felt I’d step into the Twilight Zone. They had a ‘modern’ table top crank phone. You turned the crank a different # of times to get either the operator or someone else on YOUR party line. All calls off your party line went through the operator and everyone on your party line could listen in on your calls anytime they wanted! Really weird.

35. My sincere apologies to the ladies of iotw.
    The minorities? Not so much. 🙂

    @Unruly, that was Matthew Broderick that made that payphone call, from War Games.
    “Professor Falken, would you like to play a game?”