Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic To : Dumas Walker From : Jas Hud Date : Mon May 16 2022 10:50 pm To: Dumas Walker Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic By: Dumas Walker to JAS HUD on Mon May 16 2022 04:32 pm > > > My first modem line was also pulse. > > > > i never understood what pulse dialing was about. i thought it was just > > some du > > feature on phones. > > > i was never fascinated by phone technology, though. > > I don't think it was really a feature. It was the standard technology that > allowed you to use a push-button phone, or a modem, on a phone line meant > for a rotary phone. > > Touch-tone dialing was a "feature" that the phone company charged extra for, > at the time, until it became the default standard. > i never heard from anybody that you had to pay more for tons. and the pulse dialing i thought was just some weird feature when i was a kid. i pushed the button on my phone to do pulse dialing. i'm pretty sure we've had tone dialing for 50-60 years or more. those charges are just part of the bullshit phone companies would pull on people. they really committed so many sins back in the day. .