Damn whippersnappers! How are you supposed to stick your finger in them little holes. This is more like it.
Damn whippersnappers! How are you supposed to stick your finger in them little holes.
I'd still be using it today, but our POTS service degraded when Verizon took over GTE. We got fed up with constantly calling them out to fix the crossed lines. If you called anyone on our street, you had 1 in 23 chance of actually getting the house you called. The rest of the time, it'd often connect to multiple houses at the same time and everyone would be confused to why they were on a party line (which is another thing youngins don't know about.)
I've been meaning to try my rotary phones on my Obi VOIP box. I don't know how to rotary-dial star or pound ("octothorpe" in Bell official jargon) with one though. The ones in my shop and garage are original equipment from when the house was built.
I've been meaning to try my rotary phones on my Obi VOIP box. I don't know how to rotary-dial star or pound ("octothorpe" in Bell official jargon) with one though. The ones in my shop and garage are original equipment from when the house was built.
But do callers still sound like robots trying to fsck your ear?
Octatherpe.
I can still pulse dial a phone with only a hook.
Accepted spelling seems to be Octothorpe. One story has it named in honor of Jim Thorpe, but I think that's a shaggy-dog story.
Anyway, it's not "number sign" or "pound sign" or "hash tag"....
back in the day, we used to do that to bypass those little locks that went through one hole of the dial.
Edited to add: thinking about it, that was probably good junior practice for Morse keying.