Using a rotary phone with a tablet

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Polaroid SX-70__Neat!

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I thought he was going to build a stepping relay-based digit register. Darn.

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I was surprised when I discovered that my dial phone works with my FIOS box.

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It truly is a wonderful technological retro-advancement!

But the maker is missing half the fun of rotary dialing, which is the little free ride your finger gets if you leave it in the dialer on the way back.

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Not surprising when you consider that the code base to recognize any landline phone signalling is very old, and pulse compatibility was a requirement of the old landline systems.

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