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Old 12-01-2011, 01:47 PM #34
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Originally Posted by Niamh. View Post
also I remember when telephones looked like this :



It used to take forever to dial a number and I remember getting really annoyed when I'd make a mistake and have to start over again :/

my friends mom had a lock on hers to stop my friend running up the phone bill but we figured out how to tap the phone, by hitting the hang up button really quick (5 times for 5, 6 times for 6 etc.)
Evil woman Niamh! I was reading the 'call emergency' thread on the site. 999 would take forever on these phones and that's why the clever Americans invented 112 I think!

I still have a 1930s bakolite phone in black and one in green - their rings are really nice!
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