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In article writes:

And speaking of communication and "clicks and whirs"; the sight,
sounds (and even scents) of a big telephone central office implemented
in "Strowger switches" is another phenomenon lost to the digital
generation.

Heck, most people under 30 don't know why we say "dial" a phone number.

I have a couple of dial telephones stil in use here and it continues to amaze me
that they still work for outgoing calls. I remember thinking that I was cheating
the phone company when I wasn't paying the extra $3/month for Touch-Tone
service since I had only dial phones, but discovered that my modem worked
on the home line in the tone mode, so I used that. Then I got a second line for
a BBS and specified (again) that it was dial-only. This line was on a different
exchange than the house line and darn if the modem only dialed in pulse mode.

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