Touch Tone

"Some of the other artifacts ... included an early typewriter with a piano keyboard, an early IBM paper tape punch that made square holes (not round), an official IBM song book, early prototypes of touch-tone phones, Teletypes, Flexowriters, an early IBM time clock, manual telephone switchboards, electro-mechanical telephone switches, and music boxes." ❋ Unknown (2009)

Having said that, I would 100% prefer touch-tone options. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Mahesh Sharma at Australian IT reports that the bank is going to offer the option of either using voice recognition or touch-tone, depending on user preference. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When I recharge on my mobile service I can skip all the prompts by simply pressing the sequence of touch-tone keys I know do the trick. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Bank Of Queensland is about to start offering its customers the choice of skipping the voice recognition system on its telephone banking and heading straight for the touch-tone menus. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Some practical members would prefer * and #, since they are already on the 12 buttons of a touch-tone phone. ❋ Alex Bellos (2010)

As each “touch-tone” button is pushed, it sounds a pleasing musical tone. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He had a closer look, but the phone only had the standard touch-tone digits. ❋ Shelagh Power-Chopra (2010)

Once again, Quinion's World Wide Words explains the history: "octothorpe" was Bell Labs jargon for one of those two function keys on touch-tone telephones that got labeled with symbols instead of numbers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

When you call your bank, the robot on the other end doesn't want you to communicate using your touch-tone keypad anymore. ❋ Brian Palmer (2010)

I could see this saving me hours of touch-tone foolishness! ❋ Nomad (2009)

Because, then as now, touch-tone parking was the rule, and there wasn't even an inch between parked cars, this act of social obligation was impossible to perform. ❋ Unknown (2009)

How many crack-heads or junkies do you know that have the patience, discipline and fortitude to diligently deal with the red-tape paperwork, Internet updates and/or automated touch-tone phone bank re-directions needed to collect the minimal money these services dole out? ❋ Unknown (2009)