http://www.slaughterdevelopment.com/2010/03/02/rotary-phone-nostalgia/ Slaughter Development's review of the latest in workflow, productivity and methodology. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:07:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.slaughterdevelopment.com/2010/03/02/rotary-phone-nostalgia/comment-page-1/#comment-428 Evan McBroom Mon, 08 Mar 2010 13:07:04 +0000 http://www.slaughterdevelopment.com/?p=4059#comment-428 Little known trivia...when the touch tone phone was invented, Bell Laps inverted the dial pad to be "upside down" from the standard accountant's 10 key. Their concern....people who were skilled at the 10 key would be able to input the numbers faster than the telephone systems behind the touch tone could deal with them. Little known trivia…when the touch tone phone was invented, Bell Laps inverted the dial pad to be “upside down” from the standard accountant’s 10 key. Their concern….people who were skilled at the 10 key would be able to input the numbers faster than the telephone systems behind the touch tone could deal with them.

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