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|    Dumas Walker to ANDRE ROBITAILLE    |
|    Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic    |
|    15 May 22 16:37:00    |
      TZUTC: -0400       MSGID: 4925.carnival@1:2320/105 26e6aede       REPLY: 1756.fidonet_bbscarni@1:154/70 26e64a60       PID: Synchronet 3.19c-Linux master/cb76b1463 Feb 20 2022 GCC 7.5.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.14-Linux master/cb76b1463 Feb 20 2022 GCC 7.5.0       BBSID: CAPCITY2       CHRS: ASCII 1       > DW> All the time, until sometime in the mid-1980's. Then, we got push button       > DW> phones, but they were still "pulse tone" so you typed in the number and       > DW> then waited to hear the "rotary sound" of that number being dialed       before       > DW> you typed the next one.              > That was a setting on the phone, tone or pulse. Tone dialing was an       additional       > onthly fee from the phone company.              Correct, and we had pulse dialing so the push button phones still sent the       pulses.                      * SLMR 2.1a * Beware programmers carrying screwdrivers.       --- SBBSecho 3.14-Linux        * Origin: capitolcityonline.net * Telnet/SSH:2022/HTTP (1:2320/105)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/0 18/200 90/1 103/705 105/81 106/201 116/17 18 120/302       SEEN-BY: 120/340 616 123/10 131 124/5016 129/215 305 330 331 153/757       SEEN-BY: 153/7715 154/10 30 40 50 700 203/0 218/700 220/90 221/0 6       SEEN-BY: 226/18 30 227/114 229/110 111 206 317 400 424 426 428 452       SEEN-BY: 229/470 550 664 700 240/5832 266/512 280/464 5003 282/1038       SEEN-BY: 292/8125 301/1 317/3 320/219 322/757 341/234 342/200 396/45       SEEN-BY: 460/58 633/267 280 281 412 416 509 712/848 2320/0 33 105       SEEN-BY: 2320/195 304 2452/250 3634/12       PATH: 2320/105 154/10 280/464 633/280 229/426           |
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