• Zier
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    242 months ago

    If you had a Touch Tone phone, you could hold any button while on a call and the noise would annoy sales callers, or the creepy heavy breathers that would call.

      • Zier
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        22 months ago

        Cell phones only register a momentary tone. Landlines (POTS) still do this though, yes.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      Also, each button was a combination of 2 frequencies, each row and each column had a certain frequency. So, each button was a combination of those two.

      But, if you pushed two buttons on the same row, or two buttons in the same column, you could get a single “note”. So, you could play very basic tunes.