Comment on What is the thing that resembles a camera shoe under the handset holder found on telephones with a handset used for?
You probably grew up in the age of rotary phones too, hu? The last one I used was only … uh… 35 years ago, I think.
An old hack that not many knew was that you could tap the hang up switch to dial numbers. Example, tap 3 times = 3, tap 10 times = 0.
Rotary phones did the same thing which is why you had to wait for the whole thing to spin back, it was tapping the line to dial out.
Trainer at my Judo club used that to call my parents with the gym-phone that had its disc locked with a padlock, when I got injured. He was great.
SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 11 months ago
An old hack that not many knew was that you could tap the hang up switch to dial numbers. Example, tap 3 times = 3, tap 10 times = 0.
Rotary phones did the same thing which is why you had to wait for the whole thing to spin back, it was tapping the line to dial out.
bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 11 months ago
Trainer at my Judo club used that to call my parents with the gym-phone that had its disc locked with a padlock, when I got injured. He was great.