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Also much-later with a hook you hung the up on. Not as common parlance as "hang up", but going "off-hook" meant something physical. My family still had one in 1982. Harvest Gold.

My favourite bit of phone tech that didn't belong properly in either the analog or digital universes was pushbutton phones that had a selector switch that let you configure them to emit tones OR trains. I had one; phone company charged $2 extra per month for DTMF support.

#wallphones #handset #dtmf #Pulse

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