Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!convex!convex.COM From: russ@convex.COM (Russell Donnan) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm Subject: Re: Can a Modem be use just to dial phone#'s? Summary: Yep, he's sure. Message-ID: <105034@convex.convex.com> Date: 17 Aug 90 00:17:00 GMT References: <5082.26ca937a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> <2082@ux.acs.umn.edu> Sender: news@convex.com Reply-To: russ@convex.COM (Russell Donnan) Followup-To: Organization: Convex Computer Corporation; Richardson, TX Lines: 18 In article <2082@ux.acs.umn.edu> clarson@ux.acs.umn.edu (Chaz Larson) writes: >In article <5082.26ca937a@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> gzgj@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes: >Are you sure your touch-tone phone won't work on the pulse line? Here in >Minneapolis, I have used touch-tone phones for years without telling the >phone company I wanted a touch-tone line. My dad has used touch-tone phones >for at least the past 7 years on a supposedly "non-touch-tone" phone line in >his office, which is in Cambridge, a town of 3000 people [by which I mean to >indicate the smallness and non-cutting-edgeness of Cambridge]. This has nothing to do with this group, so I'll keep it short: The NEW switching equipment has the ability to turn off touch-tone. They just keep compartmentalizing your bill until its outrageous. In Dallas I have to pay extra to be able to DISABLE my call-waiting and it costs $45 for a clerk to turn on my phone number. AT&T is getting us back for breaking it up... -- Russ Donnan, (214) 497-4778, russ@convex.com Convex Computer Corporation, 3000 Waterview Parkway, Richardson, TX -"To capture the essence of an opinion takes but one lawyer."