Customers with rotary-dial phones, or those who prefer a live voice to the disembodied tones of a computer, can speak to a person.
Everyone else was still making do with clunky rotary-dial phones with echo-chamber acoustics and hit-or-miss connections.
It is an old black rotary-dial phone at her elbow, and she excuses herself for a brief conversation.
He said customers will need no special equipent for the services, which will work on either tone or rotary-dial phones.
He has installed two rotary-dial phones in a gallery, allowing visitors to experience the archaic days of communication.
And many a frustrated consumer has learned to pretend to be one of the few remaining telephone customers in possession of a rotary-dial phone.
The card will not work on a rotary-dial phone.
Probably the old rotary-dial phone he'd seen on the bar near Ponytail's booth, or one in the kitchen, if there was one there.
Domestic air couriers, for the most part, have gone the way of the rotary-dial phone.
He suggested that overhead lines might be as outdated as rotary-dial phones.