jch@omnigate.clarkson.EDU (Jeffrey C Honig) (11/09/87)
Yesterday I signed a lease on an apartment in Newfield, NY, a couple of miles outside of Ithaca. I called today to arrange for phone service and was shocked to learn that the Newfield exchange does not support touch-tone service at all. None of my 4 or 5 phones supports pulse dialing, neither does my "Demon Dialer". New York Telephone claims that they target the end of 1988 for having all the exchanges in the area up to date but I don't know if I could stay sane for a year without touch-tone. I have been thinking that I could make good use of a device that I could put in the phone line after the demarcation point that would receive the touch-tone signals and convert them to pulses. Has anyone ever heard of such a device? Any leads on where I could purchase one? Any experience with such a device. Thanks much. Jeff