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   Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 20:20:37 JST Dan Ports

   New phone. Looking forward to all the time I’ll save dialing by storing my contacts… on punch cards!

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Sunday, 09-Jul-2023 20:20:36 JST Dan Ports

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     Got this phone up and running, and it is every bit as satisfying as I had hoped to be able to dial using punch cards.

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     John Regehr (regehr@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:08:32 JST John Regehr

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     • Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

     @recursive @dan wait I know what DTMF is but is there a super simple explanation of how this card encodes that phone number?

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     Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈 (recursive@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:08:33 JST Alexandra Magin 🏳️‍🌈

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     @dan Oh, that's the coolest thing. But wait, it's a rotary dial phone, but the cards use the same matrix as DTMF to encode the number

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     Dan Ports (dan@discuss.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:08:34 JST Dan Ports

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     example card

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     Mans R (mansr@society.oftrolls.com)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:09:00 JST Mans R

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     @dan Interesting encoding. I wonder how the decoder works.

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     Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:09:03 JST Luis Villa

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     @dan me: skeuomorphism is bad

     also me: unless society gives me a phone+contact app whose UX is directly inspired by this, I hope we are hit by an asteroid

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     Dan Wallach (dwallach@discuss.systems)'s status on Tuesday, 25-Jun-2024 00:09:08 JST Dan Wallach

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     @dan Nice. Now I'm curious if my VOIP gateway understands rotary pulses rather than touch tones. Hmm.