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

Yes, you did.  That was something that may have become less common once
AT&T was not the only option.

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

I would say at least 50, but pulse dialing was the standard because most
people still had rotary phones in the 1970's, and rotary phones could not
do touch tone dialing.

Now, if you had a contraption that would make the touch tone sounds (my
uncle had one), you could use a rotary phone by punching the number into
the contraption, picking up the receiver, putting the contraptions speaker
next to the receiver mic, and then hit the button that told the contraption
to send the touch tones.  So long, that is, as your line supported touch
tone dialing.


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