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  2. Telephone keypad - Wikipedia

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    A telephone keypad using the ITU E.161 standard. A telephone keypad is a keypad installed on a push-button telephone or similar telecommunication device for dialing a telephone number. It was standardized when the dual-tone multi-frequency signaling (DTMF) system was developed in the Bell System in the United States in the 1960s – this ...

  3. Keypad - Wikipedia

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    Keypad. A telephone keypad using the ITU E.161 standard. Numeric keypad, integrated with a computer keyboard. A calculator. 1984 flier for projected capacitance keypad. A keypad is a block or pad of buttons set with an arrangement of digits, symbols, or alphabetical letters. Pads mostly containing numbers and used with computers are numeric ...

  4. Rotary dial - Wikipedia

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    The Australian letter-to-number mapping was A=1, B=2, F=3, J=4, L=5, M=6, U=7, W=8, X=9, Y=0, so the phone number BX 3701 was in fact 29 3701. When Australia around 1960 changed to all-numeric telephone dials, a mnemonic to help people associate letters with numbers was the sentence, "All Big Fish Jump Like Mad Under Water eXcept Yabbies ."

  5. Asterisk - Wikipedia

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    On a tone dialling telephone keypad, the asterisk (called star) is one of the two special keys (the other is the 'square key – almost invariably replaced by the number sign # (called 'pound sign' (US), 'hash' (other countries), or 'hex'), and is found to the left of the zero [49]).

  6. Dialling (telephony) - Wikipedia

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    DTMF keypad layout. Introduced to the public in 1963 by AT&T, Touch-Tone dialing greatly shortened the time of initiating a telephone call.It also enabled direct signaling from a telephone across the long-distance network using audio-frequency tones, which was impossible with the rotary dials that generated digital direct current pulses that had to be decoded by the local central office.

  7. Push-button telephone - Wikipedia

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    A push-button telephone is a telephone that has buttons or keys for dialing a telephone number, in contrast to a rotary dial used in earlier telephones.. Western Electric experimented as early as 1941 with methods of using mechanically activated reeds to produce two tones for each of the ten digits and by the late 1940s such technology was field-tested in a No. 5 Crossbar switching system in ...

  8. DTMF - Wikipedia

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    DTMF keypad layout Combination of 1209 Hz and 697 Hz sine waves, representing DTMF "1". The DTMF telephone keypad is laid out as a matrix of push buttons in which each row represents the low frequency component and each column represents the high frequency component of the DTMF signal.

  9. Telephone - Wikipedia

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    An old rotary dial telephone. AT&T push button telephone made by Western Electric, model 2500 DMG black, 1980. A telephone, colloquially referred to as a phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically ...