This post inspired by the antique phone posted in the Gaslamp thread in the main forums:
One of my fondest memories of growing up in my grandparents' technologically backwards home was the utter confusion my friends would have when confronted with the rotary-dial 1930s phone in our kitchen. The one with the handset heavy enough to do someone serious injury if they happened to drop it on their foot, and with enough metal in it that you could feel the electric charge if you were brave enough to use it in a thunderstorm.
Ah, nostalgia. Even back in the early 1990s, none of my friends could figure out that phone. Turn the dial? But how do you deal with automated phone systems? (simple-- neighbors' house, beg to use their newfangled touch-tone.
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Anyway.... so what does a steampunk girl do when she buys a cell phone, gets rid of her land line and thus crushes all dreams of ever owning that perfect antique phone to baffle her friends and neighbors with?
Instructions for converting an old rotary phone into a cell phone!
I'm not terribly good with electronics, though if I can find a very cheap and reasonably stylish rotary I may bother learning how to do this.
biggrin But, I thought I'd post the instructions here, in case anyone more skilled in these things than I am would be interested in taking a crack at it.
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