Yes, my SE using HyperCard actually dials quite reliably that way, just by
holding my phone's mouthpiece up to the speaker on the front of the Mac.
Doesn't work as well on my Plus, since the speaker is deeper, and on the
side. :-(
Those "pocket phone dialers" were really useful! When many pay phones
still had rotary dials, it was the only way to access Touch Tone features of
banks and information sources when you were on the road.
Incidentally, these tone dialers were listed in the Radio Shack 2000
catalog, but not the 2001 version, and yet they're still mentioned in the
on-line catalog; I don't know if they can be special-ordered.
Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gregg Eshelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vintage Macs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 06, 2001 1:10 PM
Subject: DTMF Re: Drain Crawler
> So you could hold a rotary phone up to your Mac
> and dial numbers with HyperCard? ;-)
>
> A little unit that was popular in the 1980's was
> a small box about 1/2 the thickenss of a pager with
> a speaker on the back and a keypad on the front.
[snip!]
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