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Discussion Boards => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Cbsteffen on June 02, 2016, 08:13:27 am
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I'm just wondering. Rotary phones must be outdated by now because they take so long to recognize a number from having to turn a wheel for every digit instead of just pressing buttons as with a touch tone phone. I haven't had a rotary phone in use since 1997.
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I started using push button phones as soon as they came out. Bell Telephone was the only company we could get our phones from and we had to rent them. It was more expensive to rent the push button phone but I loved it.
There is still one hanging in mom's old bedroom but it's not wired to any line, so it sits there looking old. :)
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As soon as the button phones came out, I stop using rotary.
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As soon as push button came out. I liked the rotary but it took forever. I love the smart phone the best😀
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June 2. 2016
Hello to everyone out there in Fusion Cash World
The last time I used a "rotary phone" was at my mom's house. God bless her soul.
But, all I know is that it was a few years back and I don't even remember why I used my mom's phone.
Anyways, my sister Elaine found out about it when she got the phone bill and she scolded me and said, "Susan from now on use your own phone, and stop using mom's phone because I pay for it or else you start paying this bill!
And, that's all I remember!
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Oh gosh! I can't remember. Mid 80's I guess.
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I believe I stopped using a rotary phone as soon as the newer models of "touch tone" phones came out back in 1963.
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I stopped sing a rotary phone too many years to count.
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wow that was a long time ago at least 30 years,,,,,,,,
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It's been so long I can't even remember! seems like I 've been using touch tone all my life but I know that's not the case.
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As soon as push button came out. I liked the rotary but it took forever. I love the smart phone the best😀
Well, there are retro-style mobile phones with a wheel like what a rotary phone would have for dialing numbers.
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I have not seen a rotary phone for a long time. I think they are all located overseas.
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Honestly, I'm not even old enough to have experienced that.
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I can't even remember when I last used a rotary phone. I would think it has to be in the mid 80s.
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That's about the same time I touched one too.
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Like many others I have no idea when we actually switched over to push button. I know I grew up with rotary phones. Can't help but wonder if people dialed fewer wrong numbers with rotary. Would love to have one for nostalgic reasons.
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I didn't even think they had rotary phones in the 1990s, LOL. I know my mother used to use one of those phones in the mid-1980s in a telephone booth, however.
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We used a rotary up until we moved in 1969 and then we had a push button. Wow thought we were uptown. But i also remember back in the mid 1950's we moved to a small town in Ohio and the house we lived in had the old fashioned phones box where you cranked a handle and got a live operator who would plug in a number for to to someone else. We thought that was great.
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I don't know how long ago it was but I was still living at home. There was one in my parent's room and one on the kitchen wall.
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Gosh probably the 80's I would guess?? It's been way too long !
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I think in 2011 when I started college
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Wow that was a really long time ago I can't even guess.
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I cannot remember. We bought this house in the mid 80's,so maybe around than.
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Can't remember anymore been to long.
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oh gosh its been so long ago i couldnt tell you...i do remember them though...
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We still have a Mickey Mouse rotary phone.
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It's been so long I can't even remember ... had a push button phone probably since they first came out which seems like forever
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when I was a girl we had them (in the '60's).
Personally, I only remember them in the 60's. .....not sure about the '70's.
advancements take place so fast with many things in this world that I too do not remember when the changeover happened either.
I could guess or look it up.
They were taken away and brought back in the '80's in pay phones.
you don't see very many pay phones around, do you?
are there pay phones at the 7 Elevens, Circle K's and such stores?
I just looked it up; In February 2012, the last rotary phone was uninstalled. (NYC)
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In the mid 70's
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When I moved out of my parents home is probably the last time I used a rotary phone. I know she still owns it. In fact it's still connected in a basement or garage. Occasionally when I talk to her I can tell she's one of em' cause there is so much static in the line.
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As soon as the push button phone came out. I think I was a little girl.
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I haven't actually had one in my home, but in my grandparents house I used one but that was so many years ago lol.
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The last time I used one was at my grandmothers house in 2007. She passed away and the phone was thrown out with a lot of other things. I would have took it if I knew no one wanted it.
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I stopped using rotary once touch tone was created. It was great-it would take forever and a nail breaker.
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I stopped using rotary once touch tone was created. It was great-it would take forever and a nail breaker.
Do you mean you enjoyed switching to touch tone phones after calling numbers with rotary phones took too long for you?
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Maybe the late 80s?
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I think late 1970's or early 1980's.
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Too many rears, can't even remember!!
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I remember that my parents used to keep one at the house for when the electricity went out. I've only seen them use it a few times and that was quite a while ago :) I think they upgraded to a push-button phone rather quickly. I just remember seeing that old pink phone under their bed in case of emergencies. I think it is becoming a rare occurrence for a millennial to have even seen a rotary phone. Though I have seen one, I'm not entirely sure how it works, aside from watching the show "I Love Lucy" :D
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I would say the late 70's
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I was a very little girl when they disappeared from my life!
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about 10 years ago