Raise your hand if you thought a song called #dtmf had to do with #phone numbers

#badbunny #touchtone

I recently created my own website! For all of my telephone related ridiculousness. It's a WIP and there will be plenty more to come as I have more time to sit down and add information/customize my webpage!

https://supercat-telephone.neocities.org

#phones #analog #rotary #connectionsmuseum #touchtone #POTS #PTSN

@Impish4249 @allanb

Rotary phones were in use long after that in Canada, and probably other places, but touch-tone was also available. In the late 80s/early 90s I still had a line that would only do pulse dialing, because touch-tone dialing was an add-on charge with the phone company where I lived.

It was a significant amount; just adding touch-tone support increased the monthly bill by almost 10%. Yes, this was a BS charge, because it was just a flag they set on your account. It didn't cost them anything to provide tone dialing. They still do the same thing with caller-ID, so I don't have it. "We don't care. We're the phone company; we don't have to."

At the time, many (perhaps most) phones you could buy had push-button dialing, but there was a switch on the phone to choose pulse or tone dialing. If you set it to pulse, you'd push the 7 button, and then you'd hear 7 clicks, etc.

So kind of "hybrid dialing".

#Canada #phone #telephone #pulse #tone #dial #TouchTone #dialing #rotary #WeDontCare #PhoneCompany

anyone know of a good online or command-line #DTMF #TouchTone generator?

[this pony is not doing sick Hacks]

Wiedergefunden und neue Batterien eingesetzt.

Unglaublich, wie häufig es noch Hotlines gibt, bei denen man vorab mit #Touchtone auswählen soll und nicht weitergeschaltet wird, wenn man das nicht tut.

DECT-Headset an der Telefonanlage. Mal schauen, ob der Touchtone Generator bei dem Problem hilft.