[VoIP] OT - Question about old touchtone phones

[Jayson Smith]

Lee, sorry for the resend, but this for some reason went only to you.

Hi,
Thanks, I've now got a snipe for one on EBay. I found a two-for-one deal
with a "Buy it Now," but it was a clone of the WE 2500 made by some company
Cortel (spelling?) didn't look at the spelling, anyway, it says they're
still being made, use the genuine bell and not an electronic ringer, and
have more reliable touchtone technology, which is exactly what I don't want!
Now I don't ever see myself becoming a phone collector or anything, but I do
have one of the old dial phones which probably originally belonged to my
parents or my grandparents. It has the carbon mic, which I sometimes love
making recordings on, and the old bell! I sometimes wish I could get
Asterisk to record me picking up mid-ring to get the effect of a subscriber
picking up a ringing phone back in the day, but my IAXy doesn't cut the
audio path through until a second or so later, and by that time the bell has
mostly faded.
Jayson.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lee Spenadel" <lee at spenadel.com>
To: "'Jayson Smith'" <ratguy at bellsouth.net>; "'Voice Over IP Tandem for
Analog Switches'" <voip at ckts.info>
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 9:09 AM
Subject: RE: [VoIP] OT - Question about old touchtone phones


> A plain old Western Electric 2500 desk set should do the trick.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] On Behalf Of
> Jayson Smith
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 8:49 AM
> To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
> Subject: [VoIP] OT - Question about old touchtone phones
>
> Hi,
> I'm looking for an old touchtone phone. I just think it'd be cool to have
> one of these. I don't even know what to look for, though, so maybe some of
> you can help me. With modern phones, I don't know exactly when this
started,
> the duration of the touch tones are controlled by programming, such that
> even on the phones that keep the tone on for as long as you hold down the
> button, there's always a preset minimum duration for the tones, and
pressing
> two or more buttons together either doesn't do anything, or produces only
> one tone, etc. But on older phones, maybe 25/30 or more years ago, the
tone
> was kept on for *exactly* as long as you held the button. You could hit
> buttons really quickly, and there wasn't any delay between tones. If you
hit
> two buttons together, or more, if all of them had a common frequency, that
> frequency would be sounded. You could also do other interesting things
like
> fade from one tone into another, etc. Afaik, most of Evan Doorbell's tapes
> were recorded on such a phone, at least the ones I've heard, when there
was
> touchtone at all. I've noticed that even now, some cocots have that type
of
> keypad. Maybe they took old payphones and cocotized them? Any and all help
> appreciated.
> Jayson.
>
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