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I believe the US phone system still supports pulse dialing.. n/t
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 11:24 AM EST
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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 03:56 PM EST
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I couldn't use the tone-dialing feature
}

Touch tone dials have always been line powered. However, the Princess phones
required external power for something. I have never had a touch tone phone that
couldn't be dialed during a power failure. My current phone on my desk has a
power adapter, but that's for speaker phone etc. I can still dial without it.
It's the only phone I've ever owned that used local power for anything.


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Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 03:59 PM EST
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The trick still works with the cable interface unit, but it requires household
power, which is another single point of failure problem.
}

You might want to get a UPS for it and your cable modem. My VoIP terminal has
an internal battery that's good for a few hours. I plug my cable modem and
Ethernet switch into the same UPS as I use for my firewall (Linux running on an
old computer).

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  • Phreaks and Geeks - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 06:35 PM EST
Phreaks and Geeks
Authored by: JamesK on Saturday, February 02 2013 @ 05:08 PM EST
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and got the operator -- yes, they still had those at that time
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One Ringy Dingy ;-)

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