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Date: Wed, 22 May 91 13:58:02 GMT
From: Bill Gripp <billg@bony1.bony.com>
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: 9's in Telephone Numbers
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In article <telecom11.384.7@eecs.nwu.edu> gast@cs.ucla.edu (David
Gast) writes:

> Incidentally, one of the exchanges was 991.  At that time, I believe,
> exchanges ending in 1 were uncommon.

Funny, the phone my parents have (since 1964) and my uncle had (since
the late '50's) is COlfax1 (261).  My inlaws have had 661 since that
same time frame also.  Guess NJ Bell didn't hear you shouldn't use 
xy1  =8^).


Bill