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Can you T9 on a rotary phone? (you kids still know what T9 is, right?)
As far as I know, no, rotary phones don’t use the nowadays default way of dial tones, so even numeric inputs in call menus don’t work
I don't think you actually could use tones instead of pulse on a rotary phone.
Well, technically you could, if you took everything out and replaced all the guts to send the right pulse based on the timing of the rotation, of course. Or if you put some kind of translator between it and the network.
Rotary phones were fun because what they did was basically hang up shortly for each digit. So it was easy to dial a number just from the hook, even when there was one of those silly little padlocks on the dial.
You used to be able to get phone diallers, they had two purposes