kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) (03/17/91)
In article <telecom11.205.4@eecs.nwu.edu> JTUCKER@vax2.cstp.umkc.edu writes: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 205, Message 4 of 11 > Is it possible to take a phone that only has pulse dialing and convert > it to tone dialing? > [Moderator's Note: Well, sure it is. You would open the phone, > disconect the dial and associated wires, yank it out and insert a > touch tone pad there instead. Of course, the shell would not fit... Unless of course he is not allowed to actually replace the phone unit or otherwise not "in control" of it. Perhaps, maybe, who knows, he wasn't asking quite the right question, but rather wants to know if its possible to send tones out of a dial-only set to access a voice-mail system. He could get a $12 beeper from a "radio shack generic". More expensive versions have memory for several numbers You hold it to the mouthpiece to enter the tones. - Ken Dykes, Thinkage Ltd., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada [43.47N 80.52W] kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu [129.97.128.1] watmath!kgdykes [Moderator's Note: You mean one of those things the newspaper story said 'all the drug dealers use' to call pagers from rotary dial phones after the stupid city council made telco remove all the TT phones? :) PAT]