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Interesting - summer 2024 I picked-up an old rotary, my plan is to make it ring when a "insert-corporate-instant-messaging/voip/meeting" application call comes in... But time, no time...
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>For each digit N, you hit the hangup button N times, pause, then go to next digit N+1 times for each digit N. The digit 1 was two clicks of the hookswitch, and the digit 0 was eleven.
Was it? I've dialed like that a few times and I always clicked N times. Here's the code for the phone, BTW, as I forgot to include it in the article: https://github.com/skorokithakis/dialogue/blob/master/src/ma...
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I bet the reaction was similar to what my teenage kids had when I showed them some VHS tapes I found in storage.
What was their reaction like, for those of us who don't have teenagers at home to repeat the experiment on?
a floppy disk (3.5")
a floppy disk (5.25")
a floppy disk (8")
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I bet the reaction was similar to what my teenage kids had when I showed them some VHS tapes I found in storage.
What was their reaction like, for those of us who don't have teenagers at home to repeat the experiment on?
Very cool but I think my wireless bluetooth one is even cooler ;) https://blog.waleson.com/2024/10/bakelite-to-future-1950s-ro... It actually supports using the rotary dial to call phone numbers on your smartphone.
Someone should make a Bluetooth box that outputs to a standard phone connector so any standard phone would work. Has anyone done that?
I use one with a 1970's vintage rotary desk phone and it works well.
https://petrovs.info/post/2023-01-12-shaiba/ This is my USB rotary dial. It's always fun with the young people when I bring it to IT conferences.
I bet the reaction was similar to what my teenage kids had when I showed them some VHS tapes I found in storage.
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What was their reaction like, for those of us who don't have teenagers at home to repeat the experiment on?
It might have been similar to your reaction when you saw (depending on your age): a floppy disk (3.5") a floppy disk (5.25") a floppy disk (8")
It does not tell me what their reaction was, which is a little sad, because I am curious what happens when somebody for whom Facebook is ancient tech encounters video cassettes.
FWIW, I thought 8 inch floppies were weirdly big, but that's just a different form factor. It was normal to use floppies, tape or vinyl records for data and media storage. These days things are magically beamed through the sky in the most normal fashion. I think video tapes may seem a little weirder than just a larger box.
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It might have been similar to your reaction when you saw (depending on your age): a floppy disk (3.5") a floppy disk (5.25") a floppy disk (8")
I'm flattered, but you're only speculating, and at least for me this is not helpful. It does not tell me what their reaction was, which is a little sad, because I am curious what happens when somebody for whom Facebook is ancient tech encounters video cassettes. FWIW, I thought 8 inch floppies were weirdly big, but that's just a different form factor. It was normal to use floppies, tape or vinyl records for data and…
there is accually a marketing guy (founded competeitor to redbull in germany) who mad this comercially. https://herbworld.com/en/products/retro-telephone-red
I enjoy how this article shows the issues with both image generation models and language models
:)