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   Jas Hud to Dumas Walker   
   Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic   
   15 May 22 16:34:59   
   
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   PID: Synchronet 3.19b-Win32 master/a2a9dc027 Jan  2 2022 MSC 1928   
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     To: Dumas Walker   
     Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic   
     By: Dumas Walker to KURT WEISKE on Sun May 15 2022 09:12 am   
      
    > > I wonder how many people here had dialed a rotary phone on a regular   
    > > basis. No voicemail. No redial.   
    >   
    > All the time, until sometime in the mid-1980's.  Then, we got push button   
    > phones, but they were still "pulse tone" so you typed in the number and   
    > then waited to hear the "rotary sound" of that number being dialed before   
    > you typed the next one.   
    >   
    > My first modem line was also pulse.   
    >   
    >   
      
   i never understood what pulse dialing was about. i thought it was just some   
   dumb feature on phones.   
      
   i was never fascinated by phone technology, though.   
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