G'morning Michiel, 

 > 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.

 MvV> Ah how good is it to observe some facts, forward a theory,
 MvV> predict something from it and see it confirmed. Ain't that
 MvV> science?

:-))

 MvV> I trust the tones that you use nowadays are the standard DTMF tones?

They appear to be so - the foreign-made phones, modems and faxes I 
use here all seem to dial out and identify incoming calls ably 
enough  -  but I would not at all be surprised to learn that 
Telecom NZ use something else plus a software kludge....

:-))
 
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