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Article #621606Re: Video Explaining the Rotary Phone
From: t... Ted Nolan
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:49
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 04:49
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In article <p9ulbg$1s3l$1...@gal.iecc.com>, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com> wrote: >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. > Regardless of what the telco switches can do, the ongoing conversion to systems like Uverse inside houses will put paid to those old alarms etc I think. At any rate, my rotary kitchen phone stopped working after my mandatory Uverse install (though they assured me it would be ok..) -- ------ columbiaclosings.com What's not in Columbia anymore..
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