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Can I use a vintage rotary pulse dial phone with tone dialing in the house as well?
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Can I use a vintage rotary pulse dial phone with tone dialing in the house as well?
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The strange thing about phone companies and tarrifs is that they
actually charged you an extra buck for touch tone.
When I was a Service Representative for Northwestern Bell Telephone Company in
1977, Touchtoner was $1.25, plus tax, per month.
Not many years later, the added charge for Touchtone was eliminated. I
suspect that is the case virtually everywhere by now.
Rotary dial is/was the default.
It certainly WAS. It isn't anymore.
Trivia: Did you know that you can actually call/dial a number by "flashing
the switch hook"? It's true. This is 1876 technology, folks. "Make/break"
6th grade circuitry. The technique (spoof?) works to this day. You have to
be really GOOD at it and get it right but, 3 "flashes" of the switch hook
equal a "3", 5 flashes = 5 and so on really works.
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