• And if you needed to dial while on the phone, then you would probably prefer it to be separate so you can see what you are dialing while still talking. I guess it means you wouldn’t have to keep the base in an easily usable spot though.

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      At the time these were designed, dialing while on the phone, say to interface with a computer system, didn’t exist.