Talk:Rotary dial

message: This may be US-specific (I claim ignorance about that) but is it worth mentioning the different methods used to dial Vertical service codes using a rotary dial versus a touch tone keypad? (In Touch Tone the * is used as prefix, but with no * or # on a rotary dial, 11 is used.) - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 18:37, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's certainly more a North American issue (as is the term "vertical service code").  Here in Britain, for example, there has never been any direct substitution of the "11" for "*" type.  There are a few cases where a specific numeric-only code has been assigned in parallel with a code which in the native programming of the switch uses * and/or #, but even that is rare.  An example would be the allocation of 1471 for readback of the last number to call on System X exchanges, in which the native code is actually *27#.  But BT has never advertised this latter code to the public, and has only ever listed 1471 since it was suitable for both DTMF and rotary customers from the outset.  87.113.176.128 (talk) 17:46, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Vertical service codes

message: This topic is more appropriate for the article on pulse dialing technology than it is for this article, so I moved it there. Cornlad 19:47, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed "Tapping" (abuse)

message: Is there a reason for both this "Rotary dial" article and the other Dial (of telephone) to exist, or should that one be merged into this one, or both into Telephone dial or something else?  Jim.henderson 11:50, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No. I've merged it into this one (except for the first paragraph and an ugly picture). ProhibitOnions (T) 09:24, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Why did you redirect it? A dial can mean BOTH a rotary dial as well as a dial pad. I-baLL 17:36, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So, want to make it a disambiguator?  As it is, that article says much, but almost all of it is also here.  Jim.henderson 17:48, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Dial (of telephone)]]

message: The history section of this Rotary Dial article has more information about push-button phones than it does about rotary ones. 81.138.169.201 (talk) 12:52, 18 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: New Zealand got the “reverse-numbered” dials with the first Rotary system auto exchanges made by Western Electric in Antwerp; in 1919 Masterton and two exchanges (Courtenay Place and Wellington South) in the Wellington multi-exchange area. One theory in the Post Office (NZPO) was that the reverse-numbering was due to patent difficulties. Later when Christchurch and Dunedin got rotary auto exchanges, but their dials were “world standard” not reverse-numbered. These were later converted to the NZ-standard reverse-numbered dials!
Re touch-tone calling the first NEC crossbar exchanges in New Zealand from 1975 had DTMF calling, but that was only in special number groups using separate DTMF registers. Later the rotary-dial registers had Mitel converters (from Canada?) added so that all lines could have mixed DTMF and rotary-dial phones on them. There were plans to install the Mitel converters in older British step (Strowger) exchanges too, but that was a lot more work, and I don’t know if any were done.   
Re the 7-digit letter-number telephone numbers used in North America and Britain, though there were doubts whether people could remember 7 digits, the main reason was the “big-city” problem like New York and London with a large number of manual exchanges to be converted gradually. Hence if you were on a manual exchange in London you would ask the operator for Mayfair 1234, or if on an auto exchange dial MAY 1234. New York got the Panel switch and London the Director telephone system instead of the Rotary system, although a couple of rotary exchanges were installed by the BPO and the Hull Corporation in England which ran the Hull phone systam bought rotary exchanges. I have a company reprint by Bell Telephone Mfg Co. of Antwerp (Rue Boudewyns) about the Hague Telephone network, run by the Municipality (1920s). Hugo999 (talk) 06:00, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: So far as I'm aware, there were never any DTMF/MF4 converters installed in BPO Strowger exchanges.   With regard to rotary in the Hull system, there were about six rotary switches installed there originally.  The last one was withdrawn from service in 1975 and sent to the Science Museum in London, although it seems that it might no longer be there.  87.112.135.112 (talk) 17:30, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: New Zealand again

message: i have seen quite a few phones which look like they have rotary dials, but in fact the finger wheel is fake, and the numbers are all push-buttons.  i think the article should mention these imitation rotary dial phones, but i'm not sure where.
70.17.203.142 (talk) 00:12, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Fake rotary phones

message: Contents up  Paing Soe min 14:55, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: My User with all contents

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