Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bu.edu!telecom-request From: jet@uh.edu (J. Eric Townsend) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why Are Pulse Dial Phones Still Around? Message-ID: <72169@bu.edu.bu.edu> Date: 12 Jan 91 23:28:28 GMT Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Organization: University of Houston -- Department of Mathematics Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 31, Message 2 of 10 In article <16011@accuvax.nwu.edu> jyacc!charles@uunet.uu.net (Charles McGuinness) writes: >In TELECOM Digest V11I24 Todd Inch says: >> I'm amazed that pulse is still around - is support enforced by tariff? >You may find this hard to believe, but some people actually prefer >rotary dial phones! A while back, my grandmother (who is 88 years And the rest of us have little choice. UH has no real organizational level telecommunications policies. Most departments still have the rotary *only*, department level switching units. When I got my office phone (touch tone) I discovered that I couldn't use the office-to- office intercom system easily because it was pulse driven. I now astound the mathematicians by manually dialing with the switchhook if I need to buzz another office. :-) J. Eric Townsend Internet: jet@uh.edu Bitnet: jet@UHOU Systems Mangler - UH Dept. of Mathematics - (713) 749-2120 Motorola skates on Intel's head!