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WCDT: 2001-2005 (29 Aug-2 Sept 2011)
rje:
--- Quote from: Sorflakne on 31 Aug 2011, 17:16 ---
--- Quote from: Carl-E on 31 Aug 2011, 12:50 ---Sorry, you're not allowed to feel old unless you grew up dialing telephones...
Grampa, where's the Q? And the Z? And where do I read the texts?
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I'm 26. We had two dial-tone phones in the house and one in the shop. Heck, we were still using one of them when I graduated high school. Those phones were nigh indestructible.
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*hugs phone*
This is my home landline telephone right now! Well actually mine is red - but I've had it for 13 years and I'm pretty sure it's actually from the 70s maybe? (was my parents') and it still works perfectly. Long distance is a little tinny but it's not as muffled as my cell phone, amusingly. I am keeping this phone until I die. I don't need a special fancy phone for my landline since I use the cell for the majority of my calls, it's for emergencies really plus I like keeping old things. (I still have my parents record player/radio/8-track player cabinet. The 8-track player stopped working though :( )
And in case of home evasion i can use it as a weapon! Fucker is heavy as hell.
Tova:
I see all of your rotary dial telephones, and raise you an acoustic coupler.
I never owned one, but I used one at my first job (it looked almost exactly like the one in the picture above).
Skewbrow:
Ahh. Rotary dial phones. At my Dad's old workplace the staff was forbidden from making long distance calls. The way this was enforced was that an in-house switchboard (or whatever) would recognize the first digit and disconnect, if the first digit was a 9 (at that time a leading 9 indicated a long distance number in these parts). One day the engineers figured out that the next network node (at municipal central) was capable of counting the pulses much faster than the in-house one. So if you forced the rotary dial back with your finger fast enough, you could still call out of town.
Hacking a system is not a new art.
mustang6172:
Has anyone else noticed that Momo's word bubbles are now bubbles instead of square like the other antroPCs?
I would now like to apologize if someone else had said something but I didn't read their post that proved to be critical to my own.
Is it cold in here?:
Hmm. It's been that way since before the new chassis. I wonder what it means.
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