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Cool, though having recently used a rotary phone to navigate a phone menu I'm glad they died out.
by gandalfian 7y ago
Cool, though having recently used a rotary phone to navigate a phone menu I'm glad they died out.
- rekabis 7y ago> used a rotary phone to navigate a phone menu That’s impossible. Rotary phones use pulse dialling exclusively, but phone menus/trees require the tone dialling of push button and touch-screen phones. I have never heard of any phone menu/tree, even at the dawn of their implementation in the late 80s when rotary phones were still common, supporting pulse based dialling.
- banana_giraffe 7y agoPulse to Tone converters are a thing. It's possible to use a rotary phone with one on things that expect DTMF tones, which is pretty much the entire world now. Though, honestly, if you're the type to use a pulse to tone converter to keep your pulse phone alive and in use, you probably enjoy using it on a modern phone tree.
- WorldMaker 7y agoOr you paid way too much in AT&T equipment fees for decades before the breakup of Ma Bell and very much were going to get your money's worth for that $1000+ phone. My grandfather obstinately didn't want to replace a kitchen rotary simply for fun sunk cost economic reasons.