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Automatic Speed Dialer

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Topic: Automatic Speed Dialer

Posted By: mostroff
Subject: Automatic Speed Dialer
Date Posted: 1/06/09 at 1:26am

Hello all -- I'm producing a production of Beau Jest and the script calls for an automatic speed dialer. I was around in the 80s, but I have no idea what this, so not only can't I find one, but I'm not even sure what it's supposed to look like, so I don't know what to build... I gather it's a small black plastic device that has numbered buttons on it and a speaker with the concept that you could program it with a phone number, then hold the device up to a phone and push play and it would automatically beep the right tones to dial the number.

It doesn't need to be functional, but I'm just looking for a visual before I resort to painting numbers on the side of a small black plastic box. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Marc

Replies:

Posted By: tristanrobin
Date Posted: 1/06/09 at 9:47am

I just googled automatic speed dialer + images and got quite a few pictures - take a look!

Posted By: mostroff
Date Posted: 1/06/09 at 11:53am

I saw that, but those are pretty much all phones with dialers in them or other high-tech gadgetry -- what I'm looking for is handheld... right now, my strategy is to take a plastic case I found for blister pads, of all things, paint it black and paint a keypad on one side and a speaker on the other and hope that holds up...

Posted By: lighthouse
Date Posted: 1/06/09 at 2:31pm

You've got the right idea painting a plastic box. Search eBay for "Radio Shack Tone Dialer" and you can find pictures of the real thing.

Posted By: mostroff
Date Posted: 1/06/09 at 2:47pm

Thank you !!!!