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 Message 4673 
 Dumas Walker to ANDRE ROBITAILLE 
 Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic 
 15 May 22 16:37:00 
 
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>  DW> All the time, until sometime in the mid-1980's. Then, we got push button
>  DW> phones, but they were still "pulse tone" so you typed in the number and
>  DW> then waited to hear the "rotary sound" of that number being dialed
before
>  DW> you typed the next one.

> That was a setting on the phone, tone or pulse. Tone dialing was an
additional
> onthly fee from the phone company.

Correct, and we had pulse dialing so the push button phones still sent the
pulses.


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