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to: KURT WEISKE
from: Dumas Walker
date: 2022-05-15 09:12:00
subject: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic

> I wonder how many people here had dialed a rotary phone on a regular
> basis. No voicemail. No redial.

All the time, until sometime in the mid-1980's.  Then, we got push button
phones, but they were still "pulse tone" so you typed in the number and
then waited to hear the "rotary sound" of that number being dialed before
you typed the next one.

My first modem line was also pulse.


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