Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for November 29, 2017

Rotary phone? Is that an iPhone on top of a spinner?

Or a Pager…

A book and a rotary dial? – Me thinks someone reads the comments… ;-D

Everybody’s going “retro” these days. “Old” is the new “new.”

rotary phone with a party line (old social media)

If Oldbot thinks a rotary is new technology he must have been using one of those crank phones like my grandparents had. Well into the 50’s by the way.

Mabel? Connect me to NASA.

Oldbot, dream big! Become a flip phone!!!

I think he’d be better suited as a computer game station. Say, maybe Robot War or Robot Odyssey. Or Unintendo. ;-)

Um … how is Oldbot turning the pages of the book? (I assume someone placed it there for him (it?).

…or a slide rule…

I remember learning how to tap-dial. I think it still works with a landline.

We had a communal phone with a dial lock. I would tap dial when I didn’t have my key.

For years, my dad used to quote phone numbers with exchanges, like “aunt frannie? Oh, she’s Dumont-6419”. I had no idea what that meant as a kid and i’d have to tell him to just give me the numbers.

He should get together with Mustachio from “Skin Horse.”

Better check the closet to make sure Dr. Mel hasn’t locked up a deranged, murderous robot onto which he plans to graft your bot head.

“Rotary phone” is a retronym. When they were new, they were called “dial phones”. But since people kept using the word “dial” in the 60s to mean what you did with the new pushbuttons, the term “rotary” had to be invented to mean the old kind of “dial”.

I grew up with rotary dials. When I went to work for the phone company after I got out of the Air Force, I finally got a Touch Tone® phone. Now, I have an iPhone and cordless landline phone. I’m looking forward to the implant phones.