[VoIP] 2600 Dial Pulse

[Steph Kerman]

I started to encounter it around the mid-60s.  I think that's 
approximately when it was adopted.

Steph

Mark Rudholm wrote:
> 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".
> 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.
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