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Date: Fri, 24 May 1991 20:29:05 GMT
From: Ben Burch <dbb@aicchi.chi.aic.com>
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Subject: Re: Why Are *Telephone Keypads* Built Upside Down
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I was under the impression that there was a much more reasonable
reason for the DTMF pad configuration; the alphabet!  The number to
letter correspondences from the rotary phones could not be changed,
and any geometry other than the current one would have perversely
reversed the letters!  Made sense to me.
 

Ben Burch   dbb@aicchi.chi.aic.com