on 06/25/03 11:49 PM, David N. Gass at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I didn't know there were still any phone exchanges that still supported
the
old pulse dialing equipment.
They almost all still support it. You still have to pay extra for tone
dialing in some places
It's just amazing to me
Yeah.
My mates mum used to lock the dial.
But we could pulse dial by pushing the buttons underneath the handset
rapidly.
once for 1
twice for 2
etcetera.
Thats why we were so good at the Arcade sports games when we grew up.
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on 6/26/03 1:32 AM, Matthew Mung at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
Are you using the modem with built-in handset coupler?? What speed are you
using?? 300 baud or superfast 2400 baud??
LOL! the built in 56k on his Tangerine iMac.
Although I think I still do have a 300 baud acoustic modem in the
on 06/25/03 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dialing should most likely be tone unless your
phones have a big round dial thingy on the front with several finger
sized holes arranged in a circle ;-).
Hey, no joke! I have one at home, and one at the shop.
I had a young
on 6/25/03 1:19 PM, Eric L. Strobel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
on 06/25/03 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dialing should most likely be tone unless your
phones have a big round dial thingy on the front with several finger
sized holes arranged in a circle ;-).
Actually any regular POTS line will do pulse, they actually charge in
some parts of the country for touch tone still. I still have a couple
of rotary phone and I keep threatening my kids that if they aren't nice
I will put a rotary pay phone in the hall, instead of the touch tone
pay phone I'm
Scott Mugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Actually any regular POTS line will do pulse, they actually charge in
some parts of the country for touch tone still. I still have a couple
of rotary phone and I keep threatening my kids that if they aren't
nice I will put a rotary pay phone in the hall,
At 3:50 PM -0400 6/25/2003, Donna Bowers wrote:
on 6/25/03 1:19 PM, Eric L. Strobel at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
on 06/25/03 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dialing should most likely be tone unless your
phones have a big round dial thingy on the front with several
Imagine the annoyance when getting sent to voicemail or the infamous 'press
1 to continue'
Aha! Yes! Intolerable.
But..
I got this little tone-beeper, size of an iPod; little num-pad,
little speaker, place on mouthpiece, if you know the number, press it now:
beep! boop! beep! Radio Shack
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on 06/25/03 1:17 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dialing should most likely be tone unless your
phones have a big round dial thingy on the front with several
on 6/25/03 11:15 PM, Clark Martin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
While they may have a dial phone it's likely the line is tone / pulse
and the modem could use tone. Or do your parents live in Sierra
Leone or something like that?
LOL. Pennsylvania.
The line is solely pulse. Tone costs
Hey, no joke! I have one at home, and one at the shop.
I had a young client (20's) in the shop last year who asked
to use the phone, and when I pointed it out to him, said:
What the hell is that?
I got a few too. Used one last night.
Andrew
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Are you using the modem with built-in handset coupler?? What speed are you
using?? 300 baud or superfast 2400 baud??
K
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