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 (http://tinyurl.com/yegj5js)
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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.
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
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.