Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!pacbell.com!lll-winken!telecom-request From: kent@sunfs3.bos.camex.com (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Early Days of Telephony Message-ID: Date: 27 Mar 91 22:25:19 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA Lines: 16 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 251, Message 4 of 11 In article varney@ihlpf.att.com (Al L Varney) writes: > at least parts were). ANI was added around 1973, before that you > dialed a toll call as 1+ ..., but the operator had to ask "Number, > please?"; you KNEW she meant the number you were calling from! I never knew. I always had to ask what she meant. I had assumed that they knew where I was calling from (you mean I could have lied and gotten away with it? -- never occured to me), yet I had just dialed the number I wanted, so why would she ask that? Kent Borg internet: kent@camex.com AOL: kent borg H: (617) 776-6899 W: (617) 426-3577