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   Message 4,668 of 5,461   
   Kurt Weiske to Dumas Walker   
   Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic   
   15 May 22 08:16:00   
   
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   MSGID: 318.bbscarni@1:218/700 26e685da   
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   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.   
      
      
      
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