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   Message 4,673 of 5,461   
   Dumas Walker to ANDRE ROBITAILLE   
   Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic   
   15 May 22 16:37:00   
   
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   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.   
      
      
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