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Now to figure out how to make this work with a rotary phone...

That would be hilarious.

Wouldn't it just work? The FXS port will generate the 90VAC/20Hz signal and the device plugged into it interprets that as an incoming call.

You guys only support termination through SIP, not origination, so the dialling mechanism doesn't matter. And if you did want to do origination, the ATA just has to understand pulse dialling.

Yeah - I think it would. Going to eBay a fierce looking red one from the sixties and going to give it a spin.

Keep it under a glass cake cover by a bust of William Shakespeare. Next up: installing firepoles DIY.

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