Build Your Own Rotary-Dial Cell Phone

Posted by michael on Friday January 21, 2005 @02:00PM from the whis-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-k-whis-k-whis-k dept.

hwestiii writes "Yet another indicator of how unrepresentative of the main Slashdot crowd I am (meaning 'old') is that, like vinyl records, 8-track tapes, and Pintos, I can remember when rotary dial phones were items of everyday use, and not some object of retro-cool pseudo-nostalgia. Imagine my delight, then at finding this project in which an old rotary phone is turned into a cell phone. To give credit where its due, I originally found it linked from Hack A Day. I know nothing about home-built electronics projects, but this is enough to make me want to learn. If this catches on, imagine what they'll have to do to those 'turn off your cell phone' messages that play in movie theatres."

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Re:What the hell kind of phone is THIS? by tomstdenis · 2005-01-22 00:23 · Score: 0, Flamebait

The poster and you are kinda off mark. I'm 22.9 yrs old [thereabouts] and I used rotary phones when I was a kid.

You don't have to be >35 to have seen one ya know. Stop getting all nostalgialistic over CRAPPY WAY OF DIALING.

I'm sure the 60s fan boys miss the "back in our day we didn't have tuners, we had no remote control and only 3 fuzzy channels!"...

Progress is good, high def boobies!

Tom

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