Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: dl@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why we ALL have seven digit numbers Message-ID: Date: 29 Jul 89 13:19:18 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu Lines: 26 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 265, message 2 of 7 > When we bought the camp, its phone number there was "Eagle Bay 3268." In 1980, I drove a car out to the left coast. About 40 miles west of Salt Lake City, I stopped to get the oil changed. There was a Chevron station and some kind of tourist restaurant. That is ALL. The rest is all sand, or salt I guess. I noticed the Utah Bell coin slot, one of the new style (i.e. 1 slot) had a dial blank. The label on the bottom said "lift receiver, ask operator" on some such. The number on the center of the dial blank was Timparie {sp} 2 I asked the pump jockey, and he said something like "Oh, yeh, EVERYTHING is LD from here" I walked over to the greasy spoon, and the coin slot outside it said Timparie 1 on it. Now, I said, this is the 1980's- ALL telephones have numbers in the United States. So I looked up the Teddy Bear Chevron in the book there, and sure enough, Ask Operator for Timparie 2 -- Flash! Murphy gets copyright on sendmail.cf {gatech!} wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (305) 255-RTFM