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A unique birthday gift!

Postby Steve Anderson » Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:31 am

I was out shopping for a friends' birthday gift without a clue what to get...

...until I came across this, I thought it so useful I bought one for myself!

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Postby gary » Tue Sep 14, 2010 10:31 am

LOL - I'll put that on my XMas wish list!
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Postby Steve Anderson » Sat Oct 16, 2010 6:32 pm

Now, THIS I really want as a prezzie....even I can use it!
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Postby Klaas Robers » Sat Oct 16, 2010 8:54 pm

Oh nice. You need a toothpick to operate the dial. I could as well use the small screwdriver that I mostly have with me.

By the way, years ago we were in Sweden. Telephones there had a dial that started with 0, not with 1. So 0 .... 9. I expect that 0 was 1 pulse, 1 was 2 pulses and so on. It must have been a trick of Ericsson to keep other telephone builders out of the market. But it worked also if you dialed to other countries. Weird
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Postby DrZarkov » Sun Oct 17, 2010 6:09 am

A proper gift from an NBTVA-member is also this new "Playstation 2":
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Postby Lowtone » Sun Oct 17, 2010 8:13 pm

I still use a phone with old dial :oops:
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Postby Steve Anderson » Mon Oct 18, 2010 12:24 pm

Lowtone wrote:I still use a phone with old dial.


A client of mine in the UK still uses one of these UK TRIMphones, a 1968 model, it's pulse only having a dial, not tone. I surprised that modern exchanges can still handle pulse dialing.

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Postby dominicbeesley » Mon Oct 18, 2010 8:58 pm

I've got one of them in my workshop and in my office a more traditional GPO phone - after a lightning surge blew the PSU in my snazzy 1984 ICL One Per Desk....

Trouble is its quite cold and the grease in the dials has gone hard so it is quite difficult to dial and all the numbers are so bloody long these days!

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Postby Lowtone » Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:25 pm

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Mine is this one, from the 60's too. And I still use a Minitel somtimes :mrgreen:

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( called teletel, prestel or bildschrimtext in other countries )

dominicbeesley wrote:difficult to dial and all the numbers are so bloody long these days!


Ten years ago, i wanted to use my old telephone with a pre-paid card.
The voice told me "enter the 15 numbers of the card"
-drrr drrr drrr ( noise of the dial :lol: )
-"now enter the phone number you want to call"
(ten numbers )
-drr drrr drr etc.. :?

-"now, push the # key"
-" :shock: :o "
:lol: :arrow:

I felt so silly :lol: there is no key and no # or * on this phone :lol: :arrow:
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Postby gary » Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:43 pm

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Postby Lowtone » Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:51 pm

Awesome ! :shock: :o
I still have an analog line wich handle tone and pulse, but I know someone who only have VoIP and wants to use an old phone :P
Thanks for her :P

edit :
http://www.mediafire.com/?myyjyzyayzo
here is a picture of my desk
dial phone, tone phone ( with * # bis ring and speaker ), minitel. All on the same line. Under the desk I have a typewriter from the 80's.
The TV above the minitel is full analog and black and white. Analog transmitions stops this night in my region.
( By this picture ( taken by polaroid :lol: ) i wanted to show on another forum that if i put the tv above the minitel, the picture of the minitel is shown on the tv )
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