Historic communication device 😲

[JHZR2]

I remember my first elementary school had a rotary pay phone. This was in the mid-late 80s.

Every other one looked like OP….

I used to do the collect call trick too, after practice.

 

[Chris142]

i used a pay phone in Lucerne valley,ca within the last 10 years or so. it took a debit card.

 

[vavavroom]

There are a few payphones still operating in San Francisco. I see one occasionally.

 

[MolaKule]

If you are into telephones this is the place to visit:

https://abilenekansas.org/things-to-do/dickinson-county-heritage-center

My grandsons and I spent about 3 hours there with old wall phones and rotary phones, and most of them still work.

Lot's of history there.

 

[michaelluscher]

Now I feel absolutely old, and I was born in 1982.

So…just after I graduated high school… Sure, kid!

Did typing class back then use a typewriter, or one of those abacus looking computers

I don't know what's worse, the fact that the picture isn't in color, or the hairstyle
I don't remember those days, I'm a product of the extremely late 1900s

 

[Astro14]

Did typing class back then use a typewriter, or one of those abacus looking computers
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I don't know what's worse, the fact that the picture isn't in color, or the hairstyle
I don't remember those days, I'm a product of the extremely late 1900s
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When I took typing - it was on an IBM Selectric.

When I needed a paper typed up in high school - I borrowed my Dad's typewriter.

Until my senior year in college - I typed up papers on a typewriter.

 

[Astro14]

Let me add that I wasn't tech-averse. I was all in. I learned computer programming in the 6th grade.

I wrote in BASIC, and my programs were on paper punch tape. That's right - a roll of paper tape. About an inch wide. I would read my program in using that tape. When I wanted to "save" my work - I had the mainframe print out a punch tape.

 

[Krieg]

I used a radio shack phone (tone) dialer for 976 numbers....LOL! Free calls.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I remember pay phones. Everywhere in town here had one till about 2006 or 2007. I last saw one about 5 years ago in West Virginia on vacation and it still worked. They even had the phone condoms sitting out for it lol. That’s literally what the box said.

 

[dishdude]

I guess I am that old, I encountered this "Bell Atlantic" payphone over the weekend along with a cigarette machine

 

[4WD]

I guess I am that old, I encountered this "Bell Atlantic" payphone over the weekend along with a cigarette machine

At a movie studio ?

 

[4WD]

I remember pay phones. Everywhere in town here had one till about 2006 or 2007. I last saw one about 5 years ago in West Virginia on vacation and it still worked. They even had the phone condoms sitting out for it lol. That’s literally what the box said.

Know a guy who thought it was funny to call his wife and say - Collect from Sancho - turns out there was one