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   Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:49:00 JST Marcin Wichary

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   • Infoseepage

   @Infoseepage @jwz I’m pretty sure regular rotary dials also allowed for single finger or pencil operation?

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:19:27 JST jwz

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     @mwichary Compared to a rotary dial, it feels completely intuitive. And the same speed.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:19:28 JST Marcin Wichary

     I have seen so many rotary phones that it’s hard sometimes to imagine an alternative to that interface. But here’s one – a “Trommelwähler” (drum dialer) from Germany, model Fg Tist 264.

     (Apparently it wasn’t very successful.)

     https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trommelw%C3%A4hler

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:19:28 JST jwz

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     @mwichary I have one! It's glorious.

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:19:28 JST Marcin Wichary

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     @jwz How is it to use this dial?

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     Marcin Wichary (mwichary@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:48:59 JST Marcin Wichary

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     @RnDanger @Infoseepage @jwz Sure, but that’s different than the argument that the other person made. You could easily dial a classic rotary phone with a finger or a pencil. That this setup is possibly *easier* is secondary.

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     2xfo (rndanger@infosec.exchange)'s status on Friday, 17-Oct-2025 05:49:00 JST 2xfo

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     @mwichary @Infoseepage @jwz
     Here the force is downward and productive all at once. A pencil eraser gripping the drum is good where it would stop a dial from functioning, and the phone will not counter-rotate away from my dial finger before i finish dialing because I'm literally pushing it into the table