1.   But Osborne was given patience that seems as dated as a rotary telephone.

2.   Calls are still answered on the black rotary telephone that rings as loudly as a wind-up alarm clock.

3.   It is decorated sparsely, with knitted pillow covers on the small couch and a rotary telephone.

4.   References to rotary telephones and the recent invention of ZIP codes were obsolete.

5.   That has led many industry observers to predict that basic pagers will soon be as obsolete as rotary telephones.

6.   The incoming Archer administration discovered that City Hall still had rotary telephones, and that the head of the Information and Technology Services Department had no computer.

7.   They were equipped only with a table, a row of black rotary telephones and television sets.

8.   This would seem to defy probability and mathematics, and with rotary telephones, it would.

9.   Those days, like rotary telephones, are long gone.