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From: covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert  13-Sep-1989 1134)
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Subject: Natick Was Not SxS
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Date: 13 Sep 89 15:39:13 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 375, message 3 of 5

There are two reasons that JSol may have believed that it was:

1. The #5 XBar there had "City Ring," which sounds a lot like the ring
   generators used in most Bell System SxS offices.

2. There was Direct Inward Dialing into some large company's on-premises
   SxS PBX.

Another recent article referred to "that new-fangled #5 XBar" in the sixties.
According to "Events in Telephone History," the first #5 XBar was installed
on July 11, 1948, in Media, Pa.  By the sixties, #5 XBar was certainly not
"new-fangled" even in New England.

/john