On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 12:49:14 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Tue, 01 Aug 2017 07:01:53 -0400, John H
wrote:

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:04:41 -0700 (PDT), Its Me wrote:

On Monday, July 31, 2017 at 5:18:04 PM UTC-4, John H wrote:
On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 16:31:26 -0400, wrote:

On Mon, 31 Jul 2017 14:09:28 -0400, John H
wrote:

The strange one is when your own number pops on the caller ID.

My cell phone number shows up quite often on my land line CID. If I'm running around and think of
something I want to remember later, I'll often call my home phone and leave a message as a reminder.
Works well.
I am talking about the POTS number showing up on the POTS caller ID.

What is POTS?

Plain Old Telephone Service

Well, I just reckon I am pretty low tech.

I still have 2 rotary dial phones connected. That is low tech.
The one in my garage still has the original Telco label in the dial
face with my phone number on it. That is the best phone in the house
for reliability.

I remember when you had to pay for DTMF dialing capability. I always thought that was funny, because you know they had to go into the PBX turn it off for folks that didn't pay the extra charge. Then you had the phones you could buy that had a switch for rotary/DTMF. You could avoid the charge from local Bell for DTMF, but still switch the phone and use DTMF if needed.

Did you know you can rotary dial without using the dialer? For example, if you want to dial a "2" you just depress and release the hookswitch buttons in the cradle twice, very quickly. That's all the rotary dialer does... it interrupts loop current the same number of times as the number dialed. 0=10.