C.<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Impish4249" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Impish4249</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@allanb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>allanb</span></a></span> </p><p>Rotary phones were in use long after that in Canada, and probably other places, but touch-tone was also available. In the late 80s/early 90s I still had a line that would only do pulse dialing, because touch-tone dialing was an add-on charge with the phone company where I lived.</p><p>It was a significant amount; just adding touch-tone support increased the monthly bill by almost 10%. Yes, this was a BS charge, because it was just a flag they set on your account. It didn't cost them anything to provide tone dialing. They still do the same thing with caller-ID, so I don't have it. "We don't care. We're the phone company; we don't have to."</p><p>At the time, many (perhaps most) phones you could buy had push-button dialing, but there was a switch on the phone to choose pulse or tone dialing. If you set it to pulse, you'd push the 7 button, and then you'd hear 7 clicks, etc.</p><p>So kind of "hybrid dialing".</p><p><a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/phone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>phone</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/telephone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>telephone</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/pulse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pulse</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tone</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/dial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dial</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/TouchTone" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TouchTone</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/dialing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dialing</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/rotary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rotary</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WeDontCare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WeDontCare</span></a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/PhoneCompany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PhoneCompany</span></a></p>