2007-09-17 06:12:56 · 5 answers · asked by cynthia 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ Land Phones
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary_phone
A rotary phone dials its pulses at about 10 pps (pulses per second) so a 1 would be about 1/10 second and a 0 would be about 1 second. I seem to remember it taking longer than that.
2007-09-17 06:19:38 · answer #1 · answered by rscanner 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rotary-Dial Phones were still the norm in my younger years. Depending on which number (digit) you were dialing on the rotary-dial of the phone, it could take anywhere from about 1 second to 3 seconds. The "0" digit would take the longest to dial as it was the last digit in the number-sequence, where you would have to rotate the dial in almost 1 complete circle to reach the dial-stop.
2007-09-17 06:30:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The further the number is away from the start, the longer it takes. Dialing a 1 takes about one second, but dialing a 9 would take like 3 seconds to finish.
2007-09-17 06:17:10 · answer #3 · answered by tokes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the 0 takes a lot longer than the 1 because of the greater number of pulses. As I recall, you can pulse about twice as fast as the rotary dial does it and still get the system to work. This page
http://www.wikipatents.com/4066846.html
says 33-90 milliseconds down hook.
2007-09-17 06:21:16 · answer #4 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It depends on what number you are dialing as 1 is closer than 0.
2007-09-17 06:21:08 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋