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Using a 1965 Dutch Rotary Phone via VoIP (T65) in 2024
- wkat4242 2y agoThe T65 was a formidable phone. Very good audio too. It's hard to drive with modern electronics because the bell is pretty heavy, and the speakers was well. But it's worth doing it.
- Muromec 2y agoThe other approach is to make the phone do voip stuff by itself, as in put a linux board in, connect speaker and mic to it and setup baresip with some button ui.
- jmclnx 2y agoInteresting, that is a nice looking phone. At the same time here in the US, AT&T Phones were ugly in comparison. But they were indestructible at least, even when you wanted to break them :)
- jbverschoor 2y agoThese were also indestructible :) Probably has been a murder weapon at one point too
- wdb 2y agoWe had the Ericofoon at home. It's a nice phone
- t0mas88 2y agoI think that type of phone was everywhere because the national telecom provider (PTT at the time) handed them out with a subscription plan? I remember seeing "property of PTT" stickers on them.
- bzzzt 2y agoThose were not handed out, you paid 1,50 guilders per month to rent them. Also, you didn't have a lot of choice: until the end of the 80s it was officially forbidden to connect any non-PTT sanctioned telephone to your line.
- b112 2y agoSame in Canada! There was a big fight over this, when people stared using consumer modems on things such as the Vic-20 and C-64 in the late 70s. I still remember how painful 300 or 110 baud was to type on. (Sometimes 110 was all I could connect at)
- YouWhy 2y agoI'm so happy the article opts for reusing the original equipment, as opposed to recycling it (i.e., refilling the original case with different innards) Legacy POTS is still well supported via modern ATA/FXS. I feel the heritage value is much better served via this path.
- landgenoot 2y agoIf you pick up a very old fritz box. Pulse dialing support is included. Source: I hooked up an old Dutch coin operated payphone to a fritz box 7170 (2007) without problems.
- effdee 2y agoNewer ones also support it. Here's a list (if the green column says "ja" it's supported): http://www.ptt-apparate.ch/IWV-Router/IWV-Router.html http://www.ptt-apparate.ch/IWV-Router/IWV-Router.html The footnote mentions that the rotary dial's timing must be correct.
- tomatocracy 2y agoIn addition to the HT5xx ATA mentioned in the article, the newer Grandstream ATAs (at least the HT7/8xx models) also support pulse dialing. One issue that can come up though is that they effectively have tighter tolerances than old mechanical exchanges did for timings, so sometimes an older rotary phone can have timings which are within the official tolerances of the time for the local market but outside tolerances for US standards (digital pulse dialing phones are usually within spec for both because the tolerance ranges overlap).
- effdee 2y ago> This old device should support pulse tone dialing, but it did not work with mine. Might be the custom firmware, might be AVM dropping support in later versions, I'm not sure. The timings of the phone's rotaty dial might be off. Allegedly FritzBoxes are rather conservative when it comes to these timings. I just had the same problem with an old Tischfernsprecher W 48 which neither worked on a FritzBox 7560 nor a 7590. Adding a pulse to tone converter solved the problem. Btw, in case pulse dialing works with a FritzBox one can dial # via hook flash. This allows to dial the internal numbers [0]. [0] (in German) https://www.wasser.de/telefon-alt/forum/index.pl?job=thema&tnr=100000000008611&seite=1&begriff=&tin=&kategorie=#76 https://www.wasser.de/telefon-alt/forum/index.pl?job=thema&t...
- 082349872349872 2y agoIn the US, whatever was interpreting the pulse dialling was very lenient; some people tried to create "incoming-only" phones by locking a metal plate over the rotary dial, but other people would make outgoing call pulses manually via hook flash.
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- isoprophlex 2y agoThat's very cool, but a lot of effort; I just want one of those with a 3.5mm jack plug, so I can do video calls by speaking into a 70 year old bakelite earpiece, haha
- timvdalen 2y agoMan, that image brings back some memories I didn't know I had
- dn3500 2y agoI don't know if something got lost in translation, but there is pulse dialing, and there is tone dialing. There is no "pulse tone dialing".
- jandeboevrie 2y agoThanks for mentioning, fixed now. That seems to be a translation error on my part.