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This article pops up as I have a rotary phone disassembled right on my desk (rewinding the clock spring). Neat coincidence!
Real question: how long has the phone been disassembled on your desk? If you are like me: around 2 years ;).
Need a DTMF version. There's a guy in Australia who makes tiny line-powered boxes that translate rotary pulses into Touch Tones. They let me keep using my rotary phones until a few years ago when I moved into a building that had no POTS wiring. Sad.
When the iPhone was just a rumor, I suggested that making it with a touch wheel like the iPods of the time would be a great opportunity to bring back rotary dialing. This was soundly rejected by all present. Thanks to this, all I need to do is set up a Linux box so I can have that classic rotary vibe!
I bet there is an app that lets you rotary dial on the touch screen to make calls.
When the iPhone was just a rumor, I suggested that making it with a touch wheel like the iPods of the time would be a great opportunity to bring back rotary dialing. This was soundly rejected by all present. Thanks to this, all I need to do is set up a Linux box so I can have that classic rotary vibe!
Then you can use this for typing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA
Need a DTMF version. There's a guy in Australia who makes tiny line-powered boxes that translate rotary pulses into Touch Tones. They let me keep using my rotary phones until a few years ago when I moved into a building that had no POTS wiring. Sad.
Connect it to a an FXS/ATA and make it a voip phone? I have, agmonst others, a candlestick phone from the 1920's still functional using this.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Real question: how long has the phone been disassembled on your desk? If you are like me: around 2 years ;).
I made mine into a mobile a while back: https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I made mine into a mobile a while back: https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/
The "GSM shield" ( https://www.stavros.io/posts/irotary-saga/#:~:text=GSM%20shi... ) link target was likely hijacked, you might want to replace it with a snapshot ( https://web.archive.org/web/20150524if_/www.gsmlib.org/ ).
When the iPhone was just a rumor, I suggested that making it with a touch wheel like the iPods of the time would be a great opportunity to bring back rotary dialing. This was soundly rejected by all present. Thanks to this, all I need to do is set up a Linux box so I can have that classic rotary vibe!
Steve Jobs was one of the inventors listed on this patent. As it happens, I and another Apple colleague filed an almost identical patent at around the same time. So, for a while, Apple owned two patents for simulating a rotary dial on a touch wheel. (My patent was eventually allowed to lapse. Steve's has been renewed).
I have to say that I had had a bit too much to drink at a dinner in SF when I suggested this idea to my colleague. I was thinking of the old pinball game that had really good physics making it feel amazingly real. I thought that the crucial part was doing the dialing physics in such a way that users could quickly dial any digit with the right gesture.
I was not disclosed on the iPhone when I came up with this idea, but my colleague sent the idea off to the patent committee and they agreed to it! They must have laughed when they saw the similarities to Steve's patent (which was still in progress too). We did have some big differences with Steve's, so it wasn't a duplicate. That being said, I think they wanted to boost the number of patents related to the iPhone as part of the initial marketing. (Steve said that there were already "over 200 patents" for it when he introduced it.)
When the iPhone was just a rumor, I suggested that making it with a touch wheel like the iPods of the time would be a great opportunity to bring back rotary dialing. This was soundly rejected by all present. Thanks to this, all I need to do is set up a Linux box so I can have that classic rotary vibe!
Actually, you were not alone: https://www.patentlyapple.com/2010/12/apple-wins-patent-for-... Steve Jobs was one of the inventors listed on this patent. As it happens, I and another Apple colleague filed an almost identical patent at around the same time. So, for a while, Apple owned two patents for simulating a rotary dial on a touch wheel. (My patent was eventually allowed to lapse. Steve's has been renewed). I hav…
Need a DTMF version. There's a guy in Australia who makes tiny line-powered boxes that translate rotary pulses into Touch Tones. They let me keep using my rotary phones until a few years ago when I moved into a building that had no POTS wiring. Sad.
Connect it to a an FXS/ATA and make it a voip phone? I have, agmonst others, a candlestick phone from the 1920's still functional using this.
I thought about it, but couldn't find a VOIP service that was the right combination of ease/cost/good hardware.