Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: dmr@csli.stanford.edu (Daniel M. Rosenberg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: San Fransisco Horror Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 89 23:07:16 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford U. Lines: 33 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 462, message 9 of 9 telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >At the time this is written, chaos is reigning in the Bay Area, and >all telecommunications are knocked out. The latest death count is >Berkeley is totally off line at this time, and email contact is not >possible with the sites in the San Fransisco area. >From Stanford, Internet service was available clear to everywhere within hours of the quake. (Well, I made it to Pennsylvania anyway a few hours later.) This was well before the phone service came back in. Pacific Bell had -- I believe -- no physical damage to the phone network, but it was way overcrowded. I believe that when the quake hit they switched over the to A/B/C setup discussed here a while back, where A phones (emergency, police, fire, etc.) got dial tone, and B and C phones -- everyone else -- were switched back and forth as to who got dial tone. The Stanford campus telephone network worked continuously with no problems. Long distance outward via AT&T, Sprint and MCI was scrambled. It turned out that Telesphere was useful for something; their network was quite clear and turned out to be an easy way to calm my nervous parents. ITI (10488) also worked. I am hoping this was ITI (aka ITT) and I didn't have everyone in my dorm make a $50 3 minute transcontinental or cross-state call. Long distance inward was clogged full until last night (Wednesday). Today, everything seems to be back to normal. # Daniel M. Rosenberg // Stanford CSLI // Eat my opinions, not Stanford's. # dmr@csli.stanford.edu // decwrl!csli!dmr // dmr%csli@stanford.bitnet