[VoIP] 2600 Dial Pulse

[Mark Rudholm]

Peter Duffield wrote:
> Hi Jayson
> 
> The SI unit for frequency is the Hertz, which is named after the German
> physicist Heinrich Hertz.  The correct way to refer to it in writing is 
> 2600 Hz.  
> 
> It meant so much more before they started naming International Standard units
> after notable people - cps or cycles per second was clear, concise, and to the
> point, and left nothing to the imagination.

Indeed, when was that?  When I went to EE school in the 80s
the transition to Hertz had already happened.  In fact, I didn't
see "CPS" until a while later.

Tangentially, I thought it was amusing to see people write
1 Hert or 1 Megahert, as if "Hertz" was the plural of "Hert".