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JLF wrote:

On Oct 9, 7:20 am, "Steve Barker LT"
wrote:
It'll work. just plug it in.

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"JLF" wrote in message

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I am thinking of buying an old rotary dial phone.
I understand that I need to have it set up for pulse dialing vs. the
more modern tone dialing.

So can one jack be set up the old fashioned way with the phone
company
or does the entire account need to be set up one way or another?

Thank you. It is easier to post here than to try and call the phone
company itself.

J.


I like this answer the best.
I want the phone just for nostalgic/style reasons -- a light blue
princess phone from childhood.
And it would be nice to have a landline phone that works during a
power outage.

Thanks for all your ideas.

You like that answer because it's simplistic, and doesn't involve you
having to think. If you'd paid the slightest attention to the other
posts, you'd not be so confident that it will work during a power outage.

Since when does a phone NOT work during a power outage? Ok, so I don't have
cordless, cable, or cell phones, but all the phones in my house work when
the power goes out. Why wouldn't an old phone attached to a wire work the
way all old phones worked for years?

I keep an old phone around for power outages. Still, it's a pushbutton
tone dialer. We just lost power in my neighborhood for 13 hours
yesterday, as a matter of fact. But a lot of phone companies have dumped
pulse dialing compatibility. That was the OP's original concern, one
which no longer seems as important as the sentimental aspect of the
purchase.