Talk:Rotary dial
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Well I see now that someone just corrected it from "two" to "three inches in diameter"--better but still not quite there, I think. All the ones I saw (which were all for domestic use) were about 4 inches in diameter. I do have a ruler in front of me, unfortunately I don't have a rotary phone handy for measurement. --KQ
- don't have a rotary phone handy for measurement !!!
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- I too have a ruler and also six phones with rotary dials (all of them produced for the UK phone system - one of them still connected to it!). They are all 78mm in diameter.
- I am currently fuming at the way the Americans have created lots of articles Area code xxx (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3AAllpages&from=area+code&namespace=0). As though the rest of the world did not have area codes (and as though there were no area codes for purposes other than telephony). So I am not minded to translate 78mm.
- But reluctantly I will tell you that 78mm is near enough to 3 inches to suggest that the original drawings (which would have used Imperial) specified exactly 3 inches.
- RHaworth 10:09, 2005 Jan 6 (UTC)