29 Dec
2015
29 Dec
'15
5:15 p.m.
On 12/29/2015 04:58 PM, Ian S. King wrote:
I do have to say, though, that in the '80s many if
not most phones
had transitioned to touch-tone 'dialing' (what a delightfully archaic
term!). Nit picked. -- Ian
It was particularly amusing that in the heart of Silicon Valley in the
1980s, Pacific Telephone still had many of its exchanges outfitted with
crossbar switches--with your shiny new touch-tone telephone, you could
hear the clicks in the background audio as the gear converted the DTMF
to pulses...
--Chuck