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:raspberrypi: Meet Me on My Rotary Phone.

We suspect kids today [and some adults] are confused about phone terminology. In today’s world, “hanging up” and “dialing,” for example, are abstract words without the physical reference that older people remember. But some people have a soft spot for the old rotary dial phones, including [Stavros], who wired a rotary phone to his computer for use on online meetings.

https://www.stavros.io/posts/i-converted-a-rotary-phone-into-a-meeting-handset/

#rotary #phone #handset #diy #engineering #media #maker #tech #art #raspberrypi #news

[ImageSource: Stavros]

⁉️He took an old rotary phone and wanted to program a Raspberry Pi Zero to act as a sound card and a keyboard. That way, he could connect to the meeting by picking up the handset and disconnect by hanging up. He also planned to read the dial and convert that into keyboard input.⁉️

Plan B was [his words] shameful. He used a cheap USB sound card, an RP2040 to act like the keyboard, and a hub to make it simple to connect. Cases were removed, and boards were integrated into the phone to make a working project.

👾I do appreciate that [Stavros] tries not to irreversibly damage the old gear when he makes a mod like this. He uses a 3D printed connector to replace the old press-fit connections on the phone’s PCB, and it is all highly reversible.👾

Anyone interested in #ReverseEngineering a pointlessly #NDA'd "bus" system that makes it harder for no valid reason to resurrect some otherwise still functional #SATCOM gear?

https://www.beamcommunications.com/document/9-manual-9522b-l-band-transceiver/file page 15

#DPLbus #DPL #Iridium #9522B #handset

@vfrmedia Granted those folks later had access to a "#TestKit" which can verify #Handset functionality.

Ya podemos decir que la ruleta de la moda dió la vuelta entera y regresó al inicio… jajajajajaja

El “nuevo” auricular para hacer llamadas en el aifon… 🤣

Y no es broma, si es un producto real, vendido por los de #NativeUnion #Retro #Telephone #Handset

Das Foto zeigt einen Handsatz aus Bleibuchstaben in einem Schließrahmen, bereit für den Buchdruck.

#schriftsetzer #handsatz #bleisatz #buchdruck #lettern #bleibuchstaben #typografie #druckkunst #gutenberg #historischedruckwerkstatt #schlosshorst

The photo shows a hand-set of lead type in a locking frame, ready for printing.

#typesetter #handset #leadtype #letterpress #movabletype #typesetting #leadletters #typography #printmaking

Any suggestions for waterproof #PMR #handset|s? The #Motorola #Talkabout #T92 looks decent and even swims, but ~€50 is steep when any random #Retevis does the same thing modulo being waterproof for ~€10.

Seems I really need waterproofing as this kind of holiday has us wet to the underwear somewhat regularly. Fun hikes, but still, I want the communication to work reliably.

#retoot appreciated

#typography #letterpress #handset #broadsheet
The two issues of Desmond Jeffery’s Red Paper are now on @internetarchive. He devised, set and printed them in July and October of 1968 (a year when a lot was happening). Some of his earlier work is also up, and I shall be adding more.

https://archive.org/details/redpaper-1_july1968_desmondjeffery/mode/1up
https://archive.org/details/redpaper-2_october1968_desmondjeffery/mode/1up

A large polemical broadsheet, hand-set and printed directly from metal type in black on red paper. Lines and paragraphs of type in varying sizes are interlocked in four different rectilinear orientations. A reader may need to rotate the sheet to read everything. Down one edge are the title and date: Red Paper 1 / vii 68

Word Search Puzzle 694

Word List : #cockshy #tarmac #handset #poditti #dhourras #chuser #huckster #bedim #harelips #dislodge #madagass #capellet #concurs #missions #lvalues #kolkoz #hartford #stife

http://karafinance.com/2024/02/27/word-search-puzzle-694/

This is what a Phonair #telephone #handset #airFreshener looks like installed in it's natural envrionment, on the mouthpiece of a lovely red #GPO706

#phone #telephoneHeritage #telephoneHistory #vintagePhone #vintageTelephone #telephoneSanitiser

Close up view of the mouthpiece of a GPO 706 style British dial telephone.

Clipped to the centre of the mouthpiece is a small, silver, perforated, disk shaped capsule. It's supported by 3 pegs that clip into the sound holes.

The disc has "PHONAIR" embossed around it

Does your #telephone #handset smell of old feet for some reason?

Stop sniffing it like a weirdo, and install a “Phonair” telephone freshener!

This little silver puck clips on to the mouthpiece of your GPO telephone and makes it smell lemon fresh for up to 3 months!

Also available in rose and “original” flavour.

(Not suitable for trimphones)

Uk Pat No 1157643, issued circa 1965

#phone #telephoneHistory #vintageTelephone #vintagePhone #telecoms #POTelephones

Manual telephone switchboard key shelf, displaying a 2” square yellow cardboard blister pack, with a small metallic disc in the plastic blister.

Packaging illustration shows a GPO 700 style handset with the metallic disc clipped into the holes on the mouthpiece.

Advertising/packaging text reads:
Phonair telephone freshener
Lemon fragrance
* fixed in seconds
* contains a germicide
* will not interfere with speech
* lasts 3 months

@lauren

Also much-later #wallphones with a hook you hung the #handset up on. Not as common parlance as "hang up", but going "off-hook" meant something physical. My family still had one in 1982. Harvest Gold.

My favourite bit of phone tech that didn't belong properly in either the analog or digital universes was pushbutton phones that had a selector switch that let you configure them to emit #DTMF tones OR #pulse trains. I had one; phone company charged $2 extra per month for DTMF support.