Subj : Synchronet vs. Mystic
To : Jas Hud
From : Denis Mosko
Date : Tue May 17 2022 10:17 am
Hi, Dumas Walker & JAS HUD.
>> > 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.
JH> i never heard from anybody that you had to pay more for tons.
JH> and the pulse dialing i thought was just some weird feature when i was a
JH> kid. i pushed the button on my phone to do pulse dialing.
JH> i'm pretty sure we've had tone dialing for 50-60 years or more.
JH> those charges are just part of the bullshit phone companies would pull on
JH> people. they really committed so many sins back in the day.
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