Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Wed, 1 May 91 13:45:15 PDT From: "John R. Covert 01-May-1991 1646" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Information Wanted on Chapel Hill Phone System 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 327, Message 4 of 6 Lines: 30 [Moderator's Note: Message forwarded to the Digest. PAT] From: Dale Neiburg Subject: Information Wanted on Chapel Hill Phone System Organization: NPR Engineering In volume 11, issue 297, Thomas B. Clark III of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill recounts some puzzling problems with wrong numbers on his hunt group. I have no wisdom to offer on that, but would be interested in knowing how the Chapel Hill phone system works generally. Reason being: when I attended UNC-CH (graduated '67), the town phone system was operated by the University, as were the town laundry, the hotel, the water works, and lots of other things. Back in those days, it had the reputation of being abysmal. How Bad Was It? It was so bad that being taken over by GTE was a big improvement. Sorry, I don't have any anecdotes about my personal experiences with the ancien regime. I was enrolled there for only four years, and there was a five-year waiting list to get a phone.... Disclaimer: Opinions are mine, not NPR's or GTE's. UNC and I gave up speaking for each other in 1967.