> But, a FINGER is such a better visual image!
> There were devices that sat on top of the "hook" of the phone (where the > > handset rested to hang up, with the handset on top of them. A solenoid > > could lift the handset for "off-hook", and set it down again for hang-up. Did anyone ever make a "dialer" that operated by pressing/releasing the switch hook? Seems a solenoid to do that would be a lot simpler than a "motorized finger." Just curious. Will "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery "The names of global variables should start with // " -- https://isocpp.org
