Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!ria!uwovax.uwo.ca!telecom-request From: briang@eng.sun.com (Brian Gordon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Rotary Dial w/o Wire Connection Message-ID: Date: 16 Mar 91 17:37:01 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca. Lines: 36 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 209, Message 11 of 11 In article JTUCKER@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu writes: > Is it possible to take a phone that only has pulse dialing and convert > it to tone dialing? > [Moderator's Note: Well, sure it is. You would open the phone, > disconect the dial and associated wires, yank it out and insert a > touch tone pad there instead. Of course, the shell would not fit > correctly since the cut out on the rotary dial phone is round, and the > cut out you'll be needing is square. Why bother, given the inexpensive > and high quality touchtone phones on the market? I could walk from > home to the Radio Shack, buy a phone and bring it back quicker than I > could modify an old dial phone. PAT] Gee, I'm less imaginative. I'd just replace the mouthpiece with one of those "touch tone mouthpiece" devices and just ignore the original dial. Brian G. Gordon briang@Sun.COM (if you trust exotic mailers) ...!sun!briangordon (if you route it yourself) [Moderator's Note: What I particularly dislike about those tone pad in the mouthpiece devices is how easily they seem to get the buttons stuck and gummed up. If you hold the receiver on your shoulder with your head cocked to one side it is easy to get saliva sprayed on the pad as you are talking. If you rely more on what you hear in your ear rather than what you see your fingers doing when dialing (to insure you have dialed corectly) then you have a more difficult time. Maybe some of those things are well built and sturdy, but I have yet to see one in use after a couple months that was not nasty from the close proximity to the mouths of everyone who had eaten/smoked cigarettes while talking on the phone, plus having buttons that were starting to get stuck. I'd not think of those things as a real conversion. PAT]