Why did this reappear as if I posted it today? I posted this 6 days ago, weird
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
Oh interesting, thanks for linking this, neat.
Exploring and having fun with rotary telephones
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#13I'm usually good at avoiding visual distractions but I gave up trying to read this.
The site has a very '90s vibe.
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#14The article's link to sip2sip.info usefully led to a SIP Settings page, which in turn discussed NAT traversal & linked to how to 'Turn off SIP ALG support in your router' on another helpful site.
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#15I grew up with no choice in this matter. Then there was a period when "touch" dialing was available for an exhorbitant premium. There's something so Brooklyn / Portland about wanting to relive this for the romance. It sucked.
For me it is a lot about the noise and feeling of the dial, I get satisfaction out of them.
Can you expand on Brooklyn/Portland? Is that hipster or something?
I can imagine it did suck to _actually_ use, the faster 20pps dials feel quite a lot faster.
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#16I'm usually good at avoiding visual distractions but I gave up trying to read this.
Check if your browser has "Reader mode". On Firefox there is a button in URL bar or you can press Ctrl+Alt+R.
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#18A fun fact about pulse dial is that you can dial a digit d by quickly tapping the switch hook d times (zero is 10 taps).
This is useful for dialing from a phone with the dial intentionally disabled or removed.
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#19Very nice job! Last month I also adapted a rotary phone but I replaced the insides with a Bluetooth chip (and some more). Now I can use it as a headset for my smartphone or laptop. While you had to learn about SIP and voltage converters I had to learn about Bluetooth and digital audio protocols. Looks like we both had fun ;)
https://blog.waleson.com/2024/10/bakelite-to-future-1950s-ro...
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#20I grew up with no choice in this matter. Then there was a period when "touch" dialing was available for an exhorbitant premium. There's something so Brooklyn / Portland about wanting to relive this for the romance. It sucked.
In the 90s there was a charge on my mom's phone bill for touch tone dialing. I called up to dispute the charges but the phone company wouldn't have any of it so I had them remove the "service" and they warned me that she wouldn't be able to dial out any more. I flipped a switch on her phone to simulate pulse dialing and a few months later switched it back. She was never charged again.