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Nice of them to include detailed instructions on how to dial a rotary phone. Not sure how young you have to be to have never used one of those, but not very, I guess.
Fun fact I occasionally like to trot out to bore young people with: on some old phone lines, you could simulate a rotary dial signal by rapidly tapping the receiver switch the appropriate number of times for each digit. In addition to being a singularly unimpressive party trick, you could sometimes also use this to make free calls from pay phones. (What’s a pay phone? It was like… OK never mind I see you’re walking away now).
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