Modems and external dialers.

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 5 Jun 2019 at 18:27, John Labovitz via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

>
> I do recall a little handheld device with a touchtone keyboard that you could fit over the microphone of a normal handset. It wasn’t automated, but at least you didn’t have to use the rotary dial.

This was a built-in feature of the Psion range of PDAs. The address
book app could dial any number in the address book, merely by holding
it up to the phone mouthpiece.

It blew people's minds at the time (very early 1990s).

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