• charokol
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    Right. But would you want to keep the dial with you? After you’ve started the call on a rotary phone, there’s no more dialing necessary

    • mercano
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      Perhaps you move the phone to the coffee table before you get comfy on the sofa, or you want to hang up and make a second call.

    • And if you needed to dial while on the phone, then you would probably prefer it to be separate so you can see what you are dialing while still talking. I guess it means you wouldn’t have to keep the base in an easily usable spot though.

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        At the time these were designed, dialing while on the phone, say to interface with a computer system, didn’t exist.