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   Hi, Dumas Walker & JAS HUD.   
                                
    >> > i never understood what pulse dialing was about. i thought it was just >   
    >> some du >  feature on phones.   
      
    >> > i was never fascinated by phone technology, though.   
      
    >> I don't think it was really a feature.  It was the standard technology   
    >> that allowed you to use a push-button phone, or a modem, on a phone line   
    >> meant for a rotary phone.   
      
    >> Touch-tone dialing was a "feature" that the phone company charged extra   
    >> for, at the time, until it became the default standard.   
      
      
    JH> i never heard from anybody that you had to pay more for tons.   
      
    JH> and the pulse dialing i thought was just some weird feature when i was a   
    JH> kid. i pushed the button on my phone to do pulse dialing.   
      
    JH> i'm pretty sure we've had tone dialing for 50-60 years or more.   
      
    JH> those charges are just part of the bullshit phone companies would pull on   
    JH> people.   they really committed so many sins back in the day.   
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