Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 28 Apr 91 15:39:08 EDT From: Danny Padwa Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 212-516 In Use in 1986 Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 318, Message 1 of 11 Lines: 28 In article , Ed_Greenberg@3mail.3com.com writes: > I have vague recollections of a service that allowed 25 cent calls all > over New York State for a maximum of 30 seconds. It was specifically > available at Grand Central Station (and probably Penn Station too) and > was designed for "meet me at the station at 5:06" type of calls. Yup ... that was exactly how this worked. It was introduced back in the days of ten cent local calls in New York. New York Tel introduced these phones in Penn Station, Grand Central (I guess), and JFK International Arrivals (and perhaps other places ... I've only used them at Penn). It was quite a deal ... for a quarter you could call anywhere in the state (even Buffalo!) for 30 seconds ... at which point you got cut off with no warning or mercy. They were quite a hit with the commuter crowd ... I have often found it useful to be able go into the city by train, knowing that when I need to go home, I'll be able to call home to tell Mom which train I'll be on, for only 25 cents. Now that a local call also costs a quarter, the "special" phones are a great deal!! Danny Padwa Padwa@Husc3.Harard.Edu (and a frequenter of the Long Island Railroad!)