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From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes)
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Subject: Re: Octothorpe source
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Date: 1 Dec 88 05:16:27 GMT
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>	All my Bell System references call # The Number Sign (or Pound).
>The only times I see it called an Octothrope is in Northern Telecom Inc
>publications talking about Digipulse Dialing, "their name" for DTMF.
     N.Tel calls DTMF either DTMF or "Touch Tone (tm)"
  "Digipulse" is the push-button like phones which generate the
    *pulses* that a dial would normally generate.
  ie: digitally generated pulses (instead of mechanical/rotary generated)
   Since N.Tel makes phones that do this, they needed a marketing name.
  Those free give-away phones from magazine subscriptions generally do this.

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 I guess with Free Trade, ATT is going to have to call them octothorpes now :-)
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