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echo: bbs_carnival
to: Dumas Walker
from: Andre Robitaille
date: 2022-05-15 09:26:00
subject: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic

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

That was a setting on the phone, tone or pulse. Tone dialing was an additional monthly fee from the phone company.


- Andre
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