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  2. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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    A telephone keypad using the ITU E.161 standard. A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was developed in the Bell System in the United States in the 1960s that replaced ...

  3. DTMF - Wikipedia

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    Autovon keypads were one of the few production units to include all 16 DTMF signals. The red keys in the fourth column produce the A, B, C, and D DTMF events. Dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) is a telecommunication signaling system using the voice-frequency band over telephone lines between telephone equipment and other communications devices and switching centers.

  4. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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    Push-button telephone. A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s ...

  5. Dialling (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    DTMF keypad layout. Introduced to the public in 1963 by AT&T, Touch-Tone dialing greatly shortened the time of initiating a telephone call.It also enabled direct signaling from a telephone across the long-distance network using audio-frequency tones, which was impossible with the rotary dials that generated digital direct current pulses that had to be decoded by the local central office.

  6. Blue box - Wikipedia

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    Blue box designed and built by Steve Wozniak and sold by Steve Jobs before they founded Apple. Displayed at the Powerhouse Museum, from the collection of the Computer History Museum [1] A blue box is an electronic device that produces tones used to generate the in-band signaling tones formerly used within the North American long-distance ...

  7. Touch-Tone Phones? - Sligo Forum - Tripadvisor

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    Answer 1 of 3: Are phones in hotels, and pay phones, touch-tone? I know this may sound silly, but I need to know because I will need to call the U.S. from a touch-tone phone when visiting Sligo.

  8. Keypad - Wikipedia

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    Numeric keypad, integrated with a computer keyboard. A calculator. 1984 flier for projected capacitance keypad. A keypad is a block or pad of buttons set with an arrangement of digits, symbols, or alphabetical letters. Pads mostly containing numbers and used with computers are numeric keypads. Keypads are found on devices which require mainly ...

  9. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    A rotary dial is a component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange . On the rotary dial, the digits are arranged in a circular layout, with one ...