Hello world

[Rosemary from Montreal]

If you can read this, my first post on this forum was a success.

Hello!  I live in Montreal and I still have a rotary line at home.  My kitchen phone is a black Northern Electric wall phone, not the original phone but a flea market find with an extra-long off-white cord and a lot of gold paint that I spent one summer cleaning off very carefully.  It's picked up a lot of dust and the audio is flaky, but it does work.  In the living room is a Panasonic push-button phone with a switch between pulse and tone dialling, plus if I get one of those annoying "press 1 for this and 2 for that" voice menus I can press * to join the touch-tone brigade.

I also used to write for Moneycard Collector Magazine, which came and went in the 1990s. 

And I am one of the last 100 people on earth without a cell phone.  woo hoo!  ☎ 

[tallguy58]

Hey, you're from the city the Northern Electric plant was in.
I grew up in Cote-St-Luc and my best friend's dad worked there.
Welcome to the knowledge network (when it comes to phones anyway)

[RDPipes]

If you can read this, my first post on this forum was a success.

Hello!  I live in Montreal and I still have a rotary line at home.  My kitchen phone is a black Northern Electric wall phone, not the original phone but a flea market find with an extra-long off-white cord and a lot of gold paint that I spent one summer cleaning off very carefully.  It's picked up a lot of dust and the audio is flaky, but it does work.  In the living room is a Panasonic push-button phone with a switch between pulse and tone dialling, plus if I get one of those annoying "press 1 for this and 2 for that" voice menus I can press * to join the touch-tone brigade.

I also used to write for Moneycard Collector Magazine, which came and went in the 1990s. 

And I am one of the last 100 people on earth without a cell phone.  woo hoo!  ☎

Your not alone, I still don't have a cellphone and don't plan on ever getting one.
Welcome Ma'am!

[NorthernElectric]

Welcome Rosemary!

[oldguy]

Welcome Rosemary. there are people on here that can help you get your dial phone working correctly.