tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post1631828184432930379..comments2023-11-02T04:53:05.386-05:00Comments on kc bob: Retro iPhonekc bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17440862813109808755noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-40048669203517966332011-11-05T19:10:59.965-05:002011-11-05T19:10:59.965-05:00Ahh, the old days! Today the patience needed for &...Ahh, the old days! Today the patience needed for "dialing" a number would be extremely difficult in our fast paced electronic age.HanginInHanginOnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12151313064716261297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-83723529798690564432010-06-14T16:24:56.374-05:002010-06-14T16:24:56.374-05:00Our phone growing up was a black rotary phone. An...Our phone growing up was a black rotary phone. And your number was preceded with a prefix. I'll never for get that first phone number. MErcury 43449. Guess I just gave my age too.Wandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06941735389982354519noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-23011336600264466302010-06-14T10:01:34.941-05:002010-06-14T10:01:34.941-05:00@Gregg - Great thought! If we had dialers we would...@Gregg - Great thought! If we had dialers we would probably get a person when we dialed tech support. But you do have to wonder what kind of technology we would have :)kc bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17440862813109808755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-34001608759920553302010-06-14T09:49:27.197-05:002010-06-14T09:49:27.197-05:00Yes, I remember both renting or leasing a phone yo...Yes, I remember both renting or leasing a phone you had to turn back in and the rotary dial phones.<br /><br />I think I miss them, at least with them you didn't have to sit there and push 1 for this and push 2 for that. <br /><br />I remember the very first non rotary phone, push button I saw was when my mom got a princess phone for her night stand and it didn't have a rotary. <br /><br />I cant remember our exchange that has been too long ago. <br /><br />You should have seen the first "car-phone" I had ever seen. It was a large as an army field telephone backback, it had a full receiver like a normal telephone and a rotary dial.Gregg Metcalfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16413691313803396844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-73737261164374644362010-06-14T01:02:01.463-05:002010-06-14T01:02:01.463-05:00@co_heir - I remember our first phone number began...@co_heir - I remember our first phone number began with YU8 and we said Yukon-8<br /><br />@Barbara - My parents had one of course but I don't remember having one when I was out on my own.. I could have blocked the memory out though :)<br /><br />@Andy - Those old dialers would take more than patience these days :)kc bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17440862813109808755noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-4844276978187770322010-06-13T21:52:17.003-05:002010-06-13T21:52:17.003-05:00I do! It's funny to think of how life has cha...I do! It's funny to think of how life has changed in this respect. I can't even imagine someone waiting to dial an entire number the way we used to. (Yes...that's how impatient we've become. Crazy...)Andy Koehnhttp://www.thirtyseconds.usnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-65443261146545873622010-06-13T20:22:01.169-05:002010-06-13T20:22:01.169-05:00BOB! You never had a rotary dial? How can that b...BOB! You never had a rotary dial? How can that be if you're older than me and we had them for years? I still remember dialing my grandparents number when I was a kid: FR4-8615.Bar L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11100008292699584336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-749955731953911627.post-22856648145165537942010-06-13T18:12:34.448-05:002010-06-13T18:12:34.448-05:00We had a rotary dial phone when I was a kid. I eve...We had a rotary dial phone when I was a kid. I even remember that the first two numbers of our exchange were letters, so instead of saying 424, we would say GA4, or Garden 4.<br /><br />When we would visit relatives in Asheville, NC, we would make calls on one of those old crank phones where you turned the crank a certain number of times for whoever you wanted to call and it would ring that many times at their house. 1 ring for my cousins up the hill, two for someone else, etc. We could listen in on other folks calls too.Fred Shopehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05993039629949819266noreply@blogger.com