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|    Kurt Weiske to Dumas Walker    |
|    Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic    |
|    15 May 22 08:16:00    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 318.bbscarni@1:218/700 26e685da       REPLY: 4915.carnival@1:2320/105 26e6458d       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Win32 master/2962e4a5b Apr 22 2022 MSC 1929       TID: SBBSecho 3.15-Win32 master/2962e4a5b Apr 22 2022 MSC 1929       BBSID: REALITY       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> Dumas Walker wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-               DW> All the time, until sometime in the mid-1980's. Then, we got push        DW> button phones, but they were still "pulse tone" so you typed in the        DW> number and then waited to hear the "rotary sound" of that number being        DW> dialed before you typed the next one.              My family has a cabin in the Lake tahoe area. For the longest time       they ran an old crossbar switch that didn't do tone, then that hybrid       you mention where tones would send dial pulses. They're a little more       modern now, think they're running a DMS system now.                            ... Towards the insignificant       --- MultiMail/DOS v0.52        * Origin: http://realitycheckbbs.org | tomorrow's retro tech (1:218/700)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 10/0 1 15/0 18/200 90/1 102/401 103/1 705 105/81 106/201       SEEN-BY: 120/340 123/131 129/305 330 331 153/7715 214/22 218/0 1 109       SEEN-BY: 218/501 650 700 720 810 840 850 860 870 880 226/30 227/114       SEEN-BY: 229/110 111 206 317 400 424 426 428 452 470 550 664 700 266/512       SEEN-BY: 282/1038 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848       PATH: 218/700 229/426           |
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