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 Message 4674 
 Jas Hud to Dumas Walker 
 Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic 
 15 May 22 16:34:59 
 
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  To: Dumas Walker
  Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
  By: Dumas Walker to KURT WEISKE on Sun May 15 2022 09:12 am

 > > 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.
 >
 >

i never understood what pulse dialing was about. i thought it was just some
dumb feature on phones.

i was never fascinated by phone technology, though.
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