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Article #621605Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: John Levine
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:28
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 01:28
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In article <20180402093220.33ce...@eircom.net>, Ahem A Rivet's Shot <ste...@eircom.net> wrote: >> When I was in high school ca. 1980, I saw a note in the local paper that >> Nine Mile Canyon was finally being converted to rotary dial. This was in >> rural Utah. > > Wow I'm surprised they didn't skip pulse and go straight to tone only. I expect it handled both rotary and pulse and the paper got it slightly wrong. I believe it's still pretty rare to have a switch on the PSTN that can't handle pulse dialed numbers. There's a lot of old burglar alarm and other equipment that does pulse dialing and is not upgraded very often. On modern switches I wouldn't think the incremental cost of a few pulse digit receivers would be significant. -- Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies", Please consider the environment before reading this e-mail. https://jl.ly
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