Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Robert Kaplan Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: White House "Caller ID" Message-ID: <5249@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 16 Mar 90 11:10:31 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 19 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 178, Message 8 of 14 A 900 number in 1977?!? I was but 5 years old then, so I don't remember, but it seems to me like a lot of COs wouldn't have been programmed to accept a 900 number. Anyone know if that was the case? Scott Fybush Disclaimer: This may not be my own opinion. "Help me, my home phone is a COCOT!" [Moderator's Note: There were '900' numbers in the middle seventies; but not nearly the number we have today. I think there were maybe ten or a dozen in all. Sports, horoscope and the talking clock were among the first, along with national weather. All were one-way; there were no interactive 900 numbers then (except President Carter). A call to 1-900-555-1212 is free; the tape used to last about a minute or less, but now it goes on, and on and on. PT]