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Re: Dialing device for a Mac? (without a modem?)

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From: Margot Flowers
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1988 08:08
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>Is there a device to dial a touch-tone phone so that someone without a 
>modem could use a hypercard rolodex to dial the phone automatically?

A low tech solution would be to use your hand.  If you place the phone
receiver close to the speaker of the Mac when the touch tones are
played, the phone will use that sound information to place the call
and the call will go through (at least, it worked on mine).
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From: flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Margot Flowers)
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Subject: Re: Dialing device for a Mac? (without a modem?)
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Date: 13 Feb 88 08:08:03 GMT
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