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@hooroo I still remember our 5 digit number, and even remember plenty of my rellies 3 digit number on their party lines...probably cos they still live there and thier last 3 digits are still the same, just have 4 more in front of them!
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:
@hooroo I still remember our 5 digit number, and even remember plenty of my rellies 3 digit number on their party lines...probably cos they still live there and thier last 3 digits are still the same, just have 4 more in front of them!
And crank handle phones ... Kaitaia in the mid-80s.
890D
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@booboo no crank handles for me.
Remember the old telephone box phones, how you could 'tap' them to get a free call!
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:
how you could 'tap' them to get a free call!
Yes, and phone boxes.
10 minus the required number to be dialed was the number of "taps" as I recall. So a seven was 3 taps.
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@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:
@booboo no crank handles for me.
Remember the old telephone box phones, how you could 'tap' them to get a free call!
That black bakerlite phone in your gif was the same shape as our crank handle model.
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@hooroo said in Coronavirus memes:
@billy-tell said in Coronavirus memes:
Locations of interest.
Look at that Blenheim Phone number!!!
Yeah - I remember having a 4-digit number in Cambridge - pretty sure it was 6333.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus memes:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:
how you could 'tap' them to get a free call!
Yes, and phone boxes.
10 minus the required number to be dialed was the number of "taps" as I recall. So a seven was 3 taps.
Was that actually correct? I remember hearing it, but even as a kid - just assumed it was an urban myth, to keep stupid kids busy tapping furiously away in a phone booth.
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@kruse said in Coronavirus memes:
Was that actually correct? I remember hearing it, but even as a kid - just assumed it was an urban myth, to keep stupid kids busy tapping furiously away in a phone booth.
Yes it was correct. Used it all the time. Analogue phones that clicked as the dial returned to 0.
Was really easy (assuming that you could subtract from 10).
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So I am assuming Blenheim still only needs 4 digits?
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I remember when you saw a phone booth you always checked the coin area, as someone nearly always left coin that could be used for spacies.
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@booboo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
@taniwharugby said in Coronavirus memes:
@hooroo I still remember our 5 digit number, and even remember plenty of my rellies 3 digit number on their party lines...probably cos they still live there and thier last 3 digits are still the same, just have 4 more in front of them!
And crank handle phones ... Kaitaia in the mid-80s.
890D
awanui here!
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@chimoaus said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I remember 1 cent lollies. I could work for 2 hours and get 50 cents and then walk 5km on my own to the dairy and get the poor shop keeper to pick out 50 different lollies.
Whilst buying my lollies I would buy a pack of smokes for my
mumselfFIFY
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@hooroo said in Old people talk about the olden days:
I only remember having a minimum of 5 numbers. 55634 then 555634 and finally 8555634.
The same for me in the 1980s.
Being able to tap the phones in the phone box was great if you were out with your mates and needed to phone someone.
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In the 80s our farm was on a party line to the local exchange - a bit like the below.
Our phone "number" was 14R.
Went digital in the late 80s. Phone number was 3 digit area code then 6 digit number, and when Australia moved to 10-digit numbers (had left the farm by that stage) they reorganised the area codes:
14R
(067) 297 087
(02) 6729 7087
Old people talk about the olden days
