[Duo2400] Re: rotary phones

[Clark Martin]

At 3:50 PM -0400 6/25/2003, Donna Bowers wrote:
>on 6/25/03 1:19 PM, Eric L. Strobel at fyzycyst at comcast.net scripsit:
>
>>  on 06/25/03 1:17 PM, mko at nt.net at mko at nt.net wrote:
>>
>>>>  Dialing should most likely be "tone" unless your
>>>>  phones have a big round dial thingy on the front with several finger
>>>>  sized holes arranged in a circle ;-).
>>>
>>>  Hey, no joke! I have one at home, and one at the shop.
>>>  I had a young client (20's) in the shop last year who asked
>>>  to use the phone, and when I pointed it out to him, said:
>>>  "What the hell is that?"
>>
>>  I didn't know there were still any phone exchanges that still supported the
>>  old pulse dialing equipment.
>My parents still have pulse. A damn pain when trying to install earthlink
>for them, let me tell you. Only 1 line and pulse... Fortunately, I had to my
>cell and could track down someone who could give me their dns numbers...
>Also fortunately I knew how to set it all up by hand as the cd is set for
>tone only and there was no way around it...
>
>Imagine the annoyance when getting sent to voicemail or the infamous 'press
>1 to continue'....


While they may have a dial phone it's likely the line is tone / pulse 
and the modem could use tone.  Or do your parents live in Sierra 
Leone or something like that?
-- 
Clark Martin
Redwood City, CA, USA
Macintosh / Internet Consulting

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