Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: cdaf%iuvax.uucp@mailrus.cc.umich.edu (Charles Daffinger) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Two Apartments on One Telephone Line Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 89 16:03:15 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 14 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 219, message 8 of 8 ->From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller) ->I was offered this service almost 15 years ago by SWBT, but declined since I ->could not figure out a way in which I could call from one house to the other. ->During the time of getting ready to move (over a month in my case), I just put ->in a seperate line and then changed the number when I actually made the move. WHen I was growing up in Western Pa, we had a house, and a summer place 5 miles away, both which had the same number. In order to call from one house to another, you just dailed 9091 and hung up. The phone would ring until someone picked up, after which you picked up, and had your conversation. This was on an ancient mechanical switch. -charles