Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To   : ANDRE ROBITAILLE
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Sun May 15 2022 04:37 pm

>  DW> All the time, until sometime in the mid-1980's. Then, we got push button
>  DW> phones, but they were still "pulse tone" so you typed in the number and
>  DW> then waited to hear the "rotary sound" of that number being dialed before
>  DW> you typed the next one.

> That was a setting on the phone, tone or pulse. Tone dialing was an additional
> onthly fee from the phone company.

Correct, and we had pulse dialing so the push button phones still sent the
pulses.


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