Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: 0004248165@mcimail.com (CTC Wang Labs) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Thirty Five Years of Recorded Announcements Message-ID: <11104@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Aug 90 18:20:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 22 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 583, Message 7 of 11 Several issues ago our Moderator wrote: > The original number for the time of day in New York City was NERVOUS. David Ofsevit has noted: > That works in the Boston area; the 637 exchange is the time announcement. In both the 617 (Metro-Boston) and 508 (Eastern Mass) NPA's, any number in the 637 exchange will give you the NewEngland Tel time announcement, although the 'official number' is 637-1234. In the days of 'named exchanges' this was the MERidian (637-) exchange [Websters: (archiac) the hour of noon]. I have a feeling that while NER-VOUS [637-8687] works just fine, the 'original' exchange in NYC was also MERIDIAN ... Comments?? Dave Bonney MCIMail: 422-4552