Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: claris!apple!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why we ALL have seven digit numbers Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 89 22:33:31 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Edward Greenberg Organization: NetCom Services - Public Access Unix System (408) 997-9175 guest Lines: 54 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 267, message 4 of 9 In article wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu writes: >... >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 >-- I've been there... in 1982, and they seem to have connected those phones to the DDD network. We made a call from there, and I'm sure I would have remembered the setup you described. The Salt Lake is actually a historical place. West of the Chevron Station was a rest area which commemorated the golden spike of telephony -- the meeting of the first transcontinental telephone cable. There are also a bunch of "Toll Stations" in the Nevada Bell telephone book that have to be reached by calling the operator. I'm looking forward to visiting some of those areas someday, when I get the time to do some motorcycling in Nevada. I've also been to Moosonee. It's about an 8 hour train ride north of Cochrane Ontario on the southern tip of Hudson's Bay. No roads up that far, and the cars that they have were brought in on the train. There are people living along the rail line and the train brings them their newpapers, groceries, drugs, hardware, etc. They also seem to be hanging on the phone line that parallels the railroad. Once in Moosonee, the phones don't seem to stand out in my memory. We received an incoming call at the motel (although the caller has passed away and I can't ask her how she made it) and we returned the call successfully. There were pay phones. They were not direct dial. I believe that they HAD dials though, and that local switching was automatic. -e [Note to moderator and Mike Trout: The stories of reaching Eagle Bay, and the moderators posting of other barely reachable locations were yummy. I encourage the moderator (and all of us) to reminisce further.] -- Ed Greenberg uunet!apple!netcom!edg