I can see it now but never would have guessed it without your post.It is for locking the dial on a rotary phone.
You are on a roll Sir !It is for locking the dial on a rotary phone.
Remember when one of the OG hackers discovered that the toy whistle in boxes of Cpt Crunch could emit the tone needed to fool the phone system and make calls?I grew up in the rotary phone era but never saw one of those locks. I pulled up to a small country store that still had a rotary pay phone in front of it. As I sat there in my car, a kid walked up to the phone. He was trying to call someone. I don't know if he actually put a dime in it but he would put his finger in about the #6 hole and rapidly throw the dial as far to the right as he could. He wasn't actually dialing it to the stop. He just kept zipping that dial as fast as he could to the right. Didn't look like he was dialing an actual number. I guess he thought if he could zip it fast enough, he would get through to someone. It was very funny.
Yeah, kids these days don't know how to dial a rotary phone so there's no need to lock it.Thanks, it makes sense. Probably wont be very useful now
I don't remember that one but there was another one us kids used to use. You could take a girls bobby pin and pull the rubbery stuff of the ends so you had bare metal. Then you would stick one end into the mouth piece of the phone and stick the other end on the bare metal part that surrounded the coin return. Once you made that connection a dial tone would come on ready for a call. Maybe it still works ?? Haven't used a pay phone in many years.Remember when one of the OG hackers discovered that the toy whistle in boxes of Cpt Crunch could emit the tone needed to fool the phone system and make calls?
I think pay phones are just about extinct.I don't remember that one but there was another one us kids used to use. You could take a girls bobby pin and pull the rubbery stuff of the ends so you had bare metal. Then you would stick one end into the mouth piece of the phone and stick the other end on the bare metal part that surrounded the coin return. Once you made that correction a dial tone would come on ready for a call. Maybe it still works ?? Haven't used a pay phone in many years.
Still have one left here in the corner of a grocery store parking lot. It is one of those newer type ones in the aluminum box without a booth.I think pay phones are just about extinct.
Swipe right. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?I grew up in the rotary phone era but never saw one of those locks. I pulled up to a small country store that still had a rotary pay phone in front of it. As I sat there in my car, a kid walked up to the phone. He was trying to call someone. I don't know if he actually put a dime in it but he would put his finger in about the #6 hole and rapidly throw the dial as far to the right as he could. He wasn't actually dialing it to the stop. He just kept zipping that dial as fast as he could to the right. Didn't look like he was dialing an actual number. I guess he thought if he could zip it fast enough, he would get through to someone. It was very funny.
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