You didn't have lots of electrical gadgets except maybe in the kitchen - you had a television set and maybe a console stereo that plugged in to the wall (other than lamps and maybe maybe maybe you had a portable television kicking around.)
Phones you probably didn't have - I live in a 1950s area, and some of the oldsters that were still here when I bought in the 90s said they couldn't get a line run to the house until the 1960s in some cases - the post-war demand from businesses and commercial enterprise (along with materials) was just that much in demand.
Mom's house was built in the late 50's. Wired for rotary phones. Had to get an adapter jack so the 'new-fangled' touch tones would work!
You mean it had a 4-pin and you had to get a modular adapter? No difference in the way Pulse and TT worked across the red/green pair.
Yeah, that's exactly what I meant.
I also remember, I found I could click the hangup button on the touch tone real fast and it would register as dialed numbers.
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