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 Message 4686 
 Dumas Walker to JAS HUD 
 Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic 
 16 May 22 16:32:00 
 
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>  > My first modem line was also pulse.
>  >

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

> i was never fascinated by phone technology, though.

I don't think it was really a feature.  It was the standard technology that
allowed you to use a push-button phone, or a modem, on a phone line meant
for a rotary phone.

Touch-tone dialing was a "feature" that the phone company charged extra for,
at the time, until it became the default standard.


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