Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Octothorpe source Message-ID:Date: 1 Dec 88 05:16:27 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 18 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 193, message 5 > 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. ----- I guess with Free Trade, ATT is going to have to call them octothorpes now :-) -- - Ken Dykes, Software Development Group, U.of.Waterloo Waterloo, Ontario, Canada N2L 3G1 kgdykes@watmath.uucp kgdykes@water.bitnet kgdykes@waterloo.csnet kgdykes@watmath.uwaterloo.ca kgdykes@watmath.edu {backbone}!watmath!kgdykes