Broom Hilda by Russell Myers for August 22, 2022

LOL… I don’t have a rotary phone, but I do have a landline.

…and I don’t have a cell phone.

The joke is on you, these are part of my collection.

And one day they will be cool again.

I hope.

I remember dialing on a rotary phone. I really hated calling people whose phone numbers had a lot of numbers like 8, 9, 0. Of course, when my parents finally got a push button phone, they refused to pay the few bucks for touch tone so I still had to wait.

A new employee at the Cdn Govt observed that the computers were still using the DOS system and fax machines were present. This was recently.

If a fax machine is so “old-fashioned”, how are important papers sent today??

Or on they all online (which can be hacked)??

I do have a fax machine.

Explaining the FAX of Life to Broom Hilda.

Did you know that you can’t use the buzzard’s name in your comments?

Some people refuse to change.

And yet, there are still documents that must be faxed or mailed to their destination.

I’ve said in the past : I still have a black (April 1964 specifically) rotary dial phone.

It worked back in the day with my Xfinity phone service I had. I’ve switched to Google Voice, so I can’t use it any longer. But if I could – I would. :-D

I still have my Princess phone and wall phone…do not like the cell…All I can think of it’s another useless expense, always has to be charged, etc. I was in peace without worrying about the cell…just another annoying gadget, with too much information…

@Maizing- I hear you on that. We’ve been conditioned to think and believe that cell phones are a life necessity when they really aren’t. They ARE a necessity however, if you do food pick-ups deliveries like I do which in that case, are VERY essential. But it seems like we see EVERYONE these days, including police officers on their phones! And on many public transportation buses, they now have USB outlets for phone charging. When I was working and taking the bus to work, I was hardly ever on my phone however, I would be using my tablet. Also, having a landline isn’t so quite out of the ordinary. Many people still have them. And with many businesses no matter how large, still depend on landlines.

I remember a few years ago, I had to fax documentation of my mom’s death certificate somewhere…and getting the confirmation that it had gone through!

Faxes have their place. It’s very difficult to fake a fax.

When I was a kid we were on a party line system. The number of rings identified who was being called. Eavesdropping was a problem and sometimes someone who was listening in would join the conversation, so you had to be careful about what you said. To have a private and reasonably secure conversation in those days my parents would call from work or a pay phone.

And there are some people who don’t have a clue as to what those two things are.

Until technological upgrades made it impossible, I was still occasionally making phone calls on the one rotary phone we still had in the basement until the 2010s.

I used my Rotary Phone until I switched my phone to internet phone this year

Broomie is gonna put her rotary phone in the same closet where she keeps her 8-track player & black & white TV!

I have a black telephone with no dial or buttons. It sits on my treadle sewing machine…

I picture her with a pink princess phone

I have a fax and it has its own number. My printer-copier has a fax function so its wired into the land line. Quite a few places still use them. And its is good for telemarketers to get the connection screech in their ear when they make blind calls

It’s not as comically old-fashioned as ‘texting’ is!

When we got the ability to scan documents, the fax was just an unneeded luxury…

That’s not old. That’s vintage.

She’s collector of relics, being one herself.

Faxes are most definitely not obsolete. Security experts tell you they are a secure way to transmit data.

If that black rotary can make calls, Broomie is an elite hacker.

If the old rotary still works, Broomie, no need to be embarrassed! I’m a no-cell-phone landliner myself, and I am happy to have y’all know it….

I have a rotary phone, in a bin, in the garage, with a bunch of my late Husband’s CB radios& equipment.