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Date: Tue, 7 May 1991 17:58:56 -0500
From: "Derek E. Terveer" <det@nightowl.mn.org>
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Subject: Re: Touch-Tone vs. Rotary - A Frustrating Experience
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jiro@shaman.com (Jiro Nakamura) writes:

> For my new line, I deliberately didn't order touch-tone service even
> though I have touch-tone phones. It's ridiculous to get charged $2.20
> (NYNEX) a month for something that saves NYNEX money by cutting down
> on computation time. Once I get my line, I'm going to see if it
> supports touch-tone anyway. If not, it's my modem/fax line anyway, so
> it doesn't seriously bother me.

I agree.  For my data line, I specifically ordered it with just pulse
and not tone because I didn't want to pay the extra few bucks a month
for something that would be practically invisible to me.  My (Unix)
system does all the dialing whenever it wants and I don't supervise
it.  And it matters little to me whether the dial portion of a
particular call at 3am took 1.2 seconds or 4.7 seconds.

The only potential disadvantage that I see is if I want my Unix box to
call long distance and use some sort of calling card code number or
something like that that requires touch-tone.  Haven't run into that
problem yet in over five years of running this system.


derek    det@nightowl.mn.org