I'm not that retro, ever use the German phone system? Sleek push button phones
click dialing to frame relays. They may have updated in the last 10 years but
that's how it used to be.
At 02:57 PM 1/31/2003 -0800, you wrote:
That's only because they've abandoned those of us who like control over our
tools. Drive cars with a manual shifter, like our phones to be phones not
calculators, cameras, game machines, etc., etc. We wish for a simple device
that does one thing but does it well, sort of like the UNIX ideal before
Berkeley
got their thumbs all over it.
Imagine a cell phone with a "dial" instead of buttons. :)
regards,
Alan Chan
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