Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 24 Jun 91 01:26:53 GMT From: "Lyle A. McGeoch" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Never Sleep in Room 411 Message-ID: Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. 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 483, Message 1 of 11 Lines: 16 I had a similar experience. One summer I spent a summer living at Manhattanville College, which had an old-fashioned phone system in some of its dorms. If someone wanted to call you from off-campus, they would call some central number. The operator would make a light flash in your room, and you would call 661 (perhaps from the hall phone) to get connected to your caller. Well, I lived in one of the dorms with real phones, and as luck would have it my number was 611. We quickly learned that we had to take our phone off the hook before the 11 pm rush of calls started. Which made it hard for anyone to call us. Lyle McGeoch Amherst College