The same thing was done during the transition from mechanical analog switching to electronic analog matrix and digital switching. All the clunks and thunks that marked the progress of call connection largely disappeared with electronic analog and digital switches. So the switch vendors added artificial progress tones/noises just to give the caller that comfort factor that a connection was still in progress ...
it's kind of silly when you think about it, but turns out to be pretty important in the overall user interface .. :-) Grant/NQ5T On Feb 3, 2010, at 4:52 PM, Alan Bloom wrote: > > people think they were disconnected. So they had to add a little > "comfort noise" to let people know everything is still working. ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
