To: Dumas Walker
  Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
  By: Dumas Walker to JAS HUD on Mon May 16 2022 04:32 pm

 > >  > My first modem line was also pulse.
 >
 >
 > > i never understood what pulse dialing was about. i thought it was just
 > > some du
 > >  feature on phones.
 >
 > > i was never fascinated by phone technology, though.
 >
 > I don't think it was really a feature.  It was the standard technology that
 > allowed you to use a push-button phone, or a modem, on a phone line meant
 > for a rotary phone.
 >
 > Touch-tone dialing was a "feature" that the phone company charged extra for,
 > at the time, until it became the default standard.
 >

i never heard from anybody that you had to pay more for tons.

and the pulse dialing i thought was just some weird feature when i was a kid. i pushed the button on my phone to do pulse dialing.

i'm pretty sure we've had tone dialing for 50-60 years or more.

those charges are just part of the bullshit phone companies would pull on people.   they really committed so many sins back in the day.
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