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Weird yellow 554 on e-bay

Started by McHeath, January 11, 2010, 11:34:02 PM

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McHeath

So, any theories as to why this yellow and ordinary modular 554 has sticky tape names around the dial?  It looks like something that you would expect to see with a speed-dial setup, which of course can't be possible, so why does this phone have it?

(unless it has a Rotatone inside, highly unlikely in my vote)

http://tinyurl.com/yegj5js
( dead link 08-25-21 )

Jim Stettler

At one point I had speed dialing as part of my phone company bundle. You could assign speed dial #'s that were stored at the central office. I never used the service except to try out. there was 2 levals of service. I think the first leval gave you 10 speed dial #s.
I do think it worked w/rotary, but you probably  had to dial the # or * .

Just a guess.
Jim S.
You live, You learn,
You die, you forget it all.

LarryInMichigan

Speed dialing did work with rotary phones.  I never used it, but I remember seeing information about it years ago.  To use it, one would dial 1-1-x-x, or something like that.

Larry

jsowers

My aunt had speed dial on her rotary phones. This was at least ten or twelve years ago, through Southern Bell. She dialed a 2-digit access number and then the speed dial number. It was almost as many dial pulls as just dialing a local number, but I guess it saved time on long distance calls.
Jonathan