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     Re: Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic   
     By: Jas Hud to Dumas Walker on Sun May 15 2022 16:34:59   
      
      
    JH> i never understood what pulse dialing was about.   
    JH> i thought it was just some dumb feature on phones.   
      
   pulse dialing was making and breaking the connection... the switch gear in the   
   central office would note the circuit coming alive and dying and count the   
   pulses of each cycle to gather the number... do you   
   remember seeing in the movies seeing folks hitting the switch hook a bunch of   
   times and then talking to the operator? the switch hook is where you placed   
   the hand piece when you hung up the phone... that   
   hitting of the switch hook was doing the same thing as dialing 0... you'd hit   
   it 10 times and then wait for the operator to come on... it still works today,   
   too... at least in areas that still offer pulse   
   dialing and have operators...   
      
      
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