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Everyone is out of the house and I have time to do some âNetwork Maintenanceâ without worrying about interrupting Zoom Meetings, online learning or Netflix.
Step one is to finally change the router setting from default.
I navigate to the 192.168.1.254 address and you can read current settings, but I need to get the device access code to change anything. Thatâs reasonable, so I go up and take a photo of the code so there is no doubt that I wrote it down wrong.
I was about to call up support before I realized it doesnât start with a capital V but a back slash and a forward slash.
Typeface. They matter.
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picked up an old western electric rotary phone at a yard sale last year. I donât have the landline connected in my apartment, but I just wanted to have one before they were all gone.
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Have you called that number yet?
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That looks like a real one! Does the silver bar go down a bit when you dial, or stay stationary? I think youâd have to have a black metal dial, not clear plastic, for it to give way, but I donât trust my memory.
I ask because my daughter picked one up at a second-hand store and showed me, and as soon as I started dialing I was able to give her the bad news that it was just a stage prop phone or something like that. Looked the part, but the mechanics gave it away.
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Iâve taken the cover off and looked up the serial number, itâs real. also, it used to have many decades of dust and crud stuck to it before I cleaned it.
iirc, the extra circuit that allows it to be used as an extension (as shown on the dial paper) makes it that much harder to wire-up now. also, unlike some European protocols, nobody for US networks sells a box you connect to that reads pulse and outputs touch tone, for some reason.
⌠or something, I canât remember exactly all the stuff I read when I got it. Iâd love to be proven wrong about any of this if anyone knows about this stuff.
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I want to go back to the good olâ days of tech that happened before I was born, lol!
And theseâŚI swear I remember seeing one in downtown Detroit when I was little, but itâs possible it was in a dream after seeing a NYC H&H on TV (donât all big cities in old movies look alike to little kids). There is a record of an âAutomatic Lunchâ restaurant being there in 1922, but I never heard Mom nor Dad mention it. Then again, I donât think I ever asked 'em about it!
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I have a real, real one. Around 10 pounds of Ma Bellâs finest,
I have\had an ATA that worked with some VOIP providers a few years ago, so it was last in service in the mid-aughts.
Actually pondering putting it out on eBay as I have no use and no space. 
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Yep, my dad had his albums, and I remember that tune (well, at least the title, lol).
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I can picture this thing in its native habitat, I visited in my childhood. There is a full ashtray to one side, the secretary uses a pen to dial because she has such long fingernails, the bathroom has a foot high stack of Playboys, and the air smells of Old Spice and sexual harassment.
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Already posted on TOP but I figure you all in this thread would find this as fascinating as I did.
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i know this sequence so well i donât even need to play the YouTube video to follow along while reading this. interesting!
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When I see Young Lust, I naturally think of the Aerosmith song. I did have this tape back then (The Wall) and heard this song plenty, but I donât think I ever knew the name or wouldâve connected it.
Phones though, yeah, they were different back then.
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Or dialed with one of these, the equivalent of the modern stylus pen.
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when Holly and Paul asked the salesman for the cheapest thing for sale in Breakfast At Tiffanyâs, it was a silver phone dialer
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I never knew thatâs what those were for.
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itâs good to have someone who looks at you the way Audrey Hepburn looks at the young, hunky George Peppard in this photo. of course, being Audrey in this scenario and finding a hunky George Peppard to look at like that is also totally a worthwhile endeavor.
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Off topic, but whenever someone bring up the movie Breakfast at Tiffanyâs, I am morally obligated to point out that the book is much better.
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