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 Message 4663 
 Dumas Walker to KURT WEISKE 
 Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic 
 15 May 22 09:12:00 
 
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> I wonder how many people here had dialed a rotary phone on a regular
> basis. No voicemail. No redial.

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

My first modem line was also pulse.


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