didn't happen often but oh buoy when it did 😆  so liberating #phone #slam

@Heliograph I remember thinking my little kid fingers would break trying to dial a number on one of these bad boys, those dials were really heavy to turn, but you know, that rasping noise it made when you turned that dial is forever stuck in my memory.

Thanks for the little nostalgia trip! 💙

@BoneyM @Heliograph You could dial numbers w/o using the rotary dial by clicking a cradle buttons like a trumpet player n+1 & pause. A zero was 11 clicks.

Does anyone else remember their home phone number from 1960? :)

@stevewfolds @BoneyM @Heliograph new didnt have one until I was in my teens ,but I remember the area code it was 0204
@Heliograph I believe it is an EB 67 Modell. I have repaired those.
Fun fact, the microphone and the loudspeaker was the same type. Open the phone by losening one screw and shake the phone a bit, switch the wires to the microphone and the loud speaker, you had to hold the hand sett upside down to use it.
@Smart58 I remember seeing handsets where the microphone and or speakers were hanging out of the handset 😁 slamming did its thing too
@Heliograph Yes it could do that, but the modell used before this was easier to break. The old modell was made of bakelite and could break if you slammed it down, I have done it myself.
My experience of course is from Norway. And other countries may have used different materials.
@Smart58 now i wished i could make one from driftwood ;D would be nice on the ear
@Heliograph
Who else can recall slamming the phone down 3-4 times to make sure they got the point?

@rgulick @Heliograph

I won't say I did that just the other day, but I do have a professional landline on my desk which makes a satisfying slam noise upon hanging up on a scammer.

@Heliograph
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@Heliograph better than slamming doors!

@Heliograph

Ah! The favourite past-time of Mr Angry (Steve Wright in the Afternoon)

@Heliograph I actually have one of *these* to house our SIM card when we're at home! 😉

@Heliograph I actually meant to paste a link woops 🤐

https://www.beetel.in/beetel/fixed-wireless-phones/

Fixed Wireless Phones :Beetel Teletech Limited

@Heliograph but I'd love to have a rotary phone edition!
@Heliograph
I still have one of those...
@MostlyTato *rengdengedeng* 😹👏
@Heliograph
Mine is disconnected. But yes, it was such a friendly sound.

@MostlyTato @Heliograph

Oh, the times when conversations were in person or in a specific place only...

:nostalgic:

@Heliograph this is apparently deep muscle memory for me, as I’ve cracked a few mobile screens from slamming my phone down at the end of a conversation… it’s not quite as satisfying.
@AlexanderMars uuuuh 😆🙈 also expensive
@Heliograph Unravelling the cord was a pain in the ass. But that hand held part was a lethal weapon...
@secoiqq @Heliograph I remember more than one movie where that thing was used to smack someone up side the head... ouch!
@julescelt01 oh yes ouch these things were heavy as heck >.< @secoiqq

@Heliograph oooh you had me thinking about a certain night in 1984 when I had an epic slam down!

You’re right. Cellphones just leave the room quietly.

@Heliograph maybe this is where it all went wrong! We all have some built up anger b/c we can't slam our phones anymore!
It did feel pretty good!
@kcanales02 saved you oodles on therapy 😆 😂
@Heliograph Thankfully, the era of slammable phones lasted longer than expected thanks to flip phones.
@Heliograph
Yup!
I love the handheld computer that is (very) occasionally used for phoning people that I am typing this on, but the last thing I want to do is slam down it to end a call!
@noondlyt
@stuartb yes these things now break if you just type too hard 😬 also yes to *very occasionally* (if at all) phoning people 😆 @noondlyt
@Heliograph
"Hey, gorgeous, I just finished work, do we need anything? Okay, I'll be home in an hour..."
And that's about it, phoning my wife to check if we need any shipping...
Maybe 20 seconds, 5 nights a week!
@noondlyt
@Heliograph
And those phones didn't usually break when you did that. Don't try it with a smartphone.
@Heliograph I had the technique down, the trick is to make sure the microphone made good contact before the earpiece hit the hook switch. Not so easy with those older phones where the hook switch is pressed by the handle, but worked well with 80s/90s style phones.
@Heliograph Also you could just pull the plug and nobody would know that the phone is not ringing when the call !
@Heliograph if it helps, i remember when you could throw cell phones across the room without breaking them
@korin lol yes you would rather break the window with that brick, yes i remember those as well >.<
Anyone under 30 who ever wondered why we "dial" a number, that image in @Heliograph's post might shed some light ; )
@Heliograph what's the mobile phone version of this?
@Heliograph the other end just heard Click but it was still satisfying.

@Oldfartrant @Heliograph
I'd to put it in a paper bag and rustle it until they hung up.

The best part? 😜 It still works today!