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>> I can' t help but wonder if some teenagers would need lessons to use them. >
>Oh, teenagers used to know that receive-only (dial-less courtesy phones) could
>be button-modulated to generate calls; that would be the lesson
>that they'd remember. After bypassing the 'security' on that, they'd
>remember always what a dial was really doing.
I'd tap 10 times to get the operator. I'd tell her I was blind and ask her to dial the whole number for me.