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Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
> On 2025-05-30, c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
> 
>> On 5/30/25 1:39 AM, rbowman wrote:
>> 
>>> GE sent a friend and I to the fair, trying to groom potential engineers in
>>> promising high school students. GE isn't what it was then, and one of the
>>> few things that did happen was touch tone dialing. Kennedy opened the fair
>>> with a TT phone and there was a booth where you could see how much faster
>>> it was than a rotary dial. Of course Ma Bell owned the whole shebang.
>>> 
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cs4zjEwqdJQ
> 
> I remember seeing an exhibit like that somewhere at about the same time.
> 
>>    "Touch-tone" WAS do-able ...
> 
> But you had to pay for it.  A friend and I hacked relays into our modems'
> phone connection, activated by the DTR line.  A suitable driver enabled
> us to pulse dial at whatever speed we wanted.  Maybe it was just the COs
> updating their equipment for Touch-Tone, but we found that we could pulse
> dial at 20 pps.  It was almost as fast as Touch-Tone.

At first you did have to "pay for the privlidge".  But at some point 
(at least with my local CO) I discovered touch tone worked even though 
there was no bill line item paying for the privlidge.

So I used touch tone from then on, without ever having paid for 
something that made the phone companies job easier.