Before Phones Had Built-In Contact Lists…

…you either kept a phone list, a Rolodex or if you were really on the cutting edge, you used one of these:

1973 ad for the “Card Callmaker”, a punch-card-driven phone number memory system.
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Image courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.

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  1. Ryan Waddell wrote::

    Connection charge of 3 pounds? I hope that’s the cost of connecting the machine, not the cost of connecting each call! Especially back in 1973! :)

    Friday, September 7, 2007 at 10:29 am #