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  Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
  By: Jas Hud to Dumas Walker on Sun May 15 2022 16:34:59


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

pulse dialing was making and breaking the connection... the switch gear in the
central office would note the circuit coming alive and dying and count the
pulses of each cycle to gather the number... do you
remember seeing in the movies seeing folks hitting the switch hook a bunch of
times and then talking to the operator? the switch hook is where you placed
the hand piece when you hung up the phone... that
hitting of the switch hook was doing the same thing as dialing 0... you'd hit
it 10 times and then wait for the operator to come on... it still works today,
too... at least in areas that still offer pulse
dialing and have operators...


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