One late night many decades ago, I chanced upon a technical description of the Touch-Tone system. The book I was reading had an explanation of how each key on a telephone sends a combination of two ...

The three-piece genre-fluid band Dial Tone rehearses in the basement of guitarist Cole Pivec’s house in the Linden Hills neighborhood of southwest Minneapolis. It is a setting natural to any college ...

Telephone dial tones are one aspect of modern life that we take for granted, but there is a history there. Wikipedia offers some interesting reading on the subject. Back in 1954 when Bell Telephone, ...

• 9.0 PSTN operator Most organizations have, and continue to use, a 9 to access an outside line. When a 9 is dialed, a secondary dial tone (stutter tone) is heard. Some legacy PBX (private branch ...

In a college house near the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota, there is a spacious walk-in closet where the band Dial Tone recorded their self-titled debut album. Dial Tone consists of ...