In uk.railway Charles Ellson twisted the electrons to say:
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:58:03 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
Curiously, some landline phones in the building were rotary--are
rotary sets still used in Britain?
They should still work on most if not all public exchanges but the
telephones (apart from various decorative/"special range" ones) will
be more than 25-30 years old by now. There are also some modern "old
style" telephones whose keypads are made to look like dials.
A quick Google suggests that one can, if desired, get a rotary dial phone
where the underlying phone is digital? (i.e. not a digital push button
phone with the buttons arranged in a circle, but an actual rotary dial.)
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