r/oddlyterrifying • u/bubbleweed • 6d ago

Numberless soviet phones

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u/B4N35P1R17 6d ago

Who you gonna call?? No one apparently….

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u/rmflow 5d ago

Fun fact, you could actually call any number with this phone (tapping the key where you put the handset). When I was kid we were having fun by calling without using rotary dial. Sometimes you get the wrong number, if you mess up number of taps.

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u/TheFridayGypsy 5d ago

This is shown in the movie hackers

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u/polarbear128 5d ago

I'm in!!

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u/TheFridayGypsy 5d ago

Joey's getting stupid busy

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u/PootsyFootLoose 5d ago

Oh yeah! Its in that place we did that thing that time.

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u/xplosm 5d ago

And Silence of the Lambs. Not sure if it was the prequel, though…

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u/B4N35P1R17 5d ago

Wouldn’t pressing the hang up button hang up the call?

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u/Thalidomidas 5d ago

Not with the old pulse dialling systems

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u/Alternative-Peak-813 5d ago

You have to make short impulses to create number, as the handset do

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u/Official_USMint 2d ago

I assumed it was just for the age of a central operator service where you just pick up the handset and someone comes on to ask who you want to talk to.