Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: westmark!dave@rutgers.edu (Dave Levenson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Why we ALL have seven digit numbers Message-ID: Date: 2 Aug 89 02:07:23 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Westmark, Inc., Warren, NJ, USA Lines: 28 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 271, message 6 of 7 > [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.] When I was a student at what is now called Case Western Reserve University, in Cleveland, back in 1966 or so, I worked part time as a PBX attendant on the campus switchboard. (It was an old wooden board with six operator positions, and fifteen cord circuits per position. A room full of step-by-step switching machines completed the intra-campus calls, and we did the incoming trunks.) We used to place all outgoing toll calls for university employees as operator-assisted calls, so that we could get a call-back with time and charges, and fill in the toll ticket for the university accountants. One day, I was asked to place a call to Purdue University. The number we called was Lafayette, Indiana, 6. We then asked for extension 2454. I was really fascinated that a PBX with a four-digit dial plan stood behind a local DN of a single digit. -- Dave Levenson Voice: (201) 647 0900 Westmark, Inc. Internet: dave@westmark.uu.net Warren, NJ, USA UUCP: {uunet | rutgers | att}!westmark!dave [The Man in the Mooney] AT&T Mail: !westmark!dave