Buttons on phones
The push-button telephone that is about to enter service has demanded a completely new technology that may one day turn it into a domestic computer terminal.
Looking exactly like a conventional instrument, except for its 10-button keypad in place of the rotary dial, it is being sold to the public as “the phone with the modern touch”. And while it will set up a call no quicker than a conventional dial, because of the drawbacks of electromechanical telephone exchanges, the keypad will allow the number to be entered much more quickly (typically 5 seconds for a 10-digit…
