Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Jas Hud
Date : Sun May 15 2022 04:34 pm

 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.