Subj : Re: Synchronet vs. Mystic
To   : Dumas Walker
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Sun May 15 2022 08:16 am

-=> Dumas Walker wrote to KURT WEISKE <=-

 DW> All the time, until sometime in the mid-1980's.  Then, we got push
 DW> button phones, but they were still "pulse tone" so you typed in the
 DW> number and then waited to hear the "rotary sound" of that number being
 DW> dialed before you typed the next one.

My family has a cabin in the Lake tahoe area. For the longest time
they ran an old crossbar switch that didn't do tone, then that hybrid
you mention where tones would send dial pulses. They're a little more
modern now, think they're running a DMS system now.



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