Hello David,

 > -> I went and dug out an old dialler phone, and you're right - it
 > -> runs clock-wise 0-9 with the 0 at 6 o'clock.
 >
 > In London, some government phones had base-12 numbers. The
 > dials had a
 > couple of extra holes, and could generate strings of up to
 > 12 pulses.

Here in The Netherlands 11 pulses were a signal to be used by an operator
to break into an existing connection.

Cheers, Michiel

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