Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 2 Jun 91 03:41:21 GMT From: Brian Kantor Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Rotary Dial Phones Forgotten But Not Gone Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 415, Message 13 of 13 Lines: 21 Ken Oberman wondered when COs would stop supporting pulse-dial (rotary) phones. Well, PBX's already have; the UCSD Ericsson MD-110 will not allow an extension phone to pulse-dial any number with a "1" (one) in it -- it interprets the single pulse as a switchhook flash and gives you a fresh dialtone. Of course, all the campus analog phones have touch-tone dials. We didn't discover the problem until people tried dialing the local Telenet node with their modems, some of which were older models that couldn't use touch-tone dialing. Last I heard, a couple of years ago, they'd have it fixed real soon. Hmm. It just occured to me: when they convert the student dorms to use the Ericsson phone system in a couple of years, will the students who own cheap plastic pulse-dial phones be able to dial 911? Brian