Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!convex!killer!vector!nobody From: nelson@kodak.com (bruce nelson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Time marches on... Message-ID: Date: 10 Jan 89 04:36:29 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 12, message 5 >From the 1953 Binghamton, NY phone book (you never know when you have to look up someone's 1953 phone number :-) 1. Obtain the number from the directory. For example 7-3245. 2. Remove the receiver and listen for the dial tone, - a steady humming sound. 3. Then place your finger in the hole in the dial over the figure "7" and turn the dial around until your finger strikes the stop. 4. Raise your finger and without touching the dial allow it to return to its original position. 5. Then dial the figures "3","2","4" and "5". Listen for the RINGING SIGNAL, an intermittent burring sound which indicates that the called telephone is being rug. If the called telephone is busy you will hear instead the BUSY SIGNAL, a rapid buzz-buzz-buzz quicker and louder than the ringing sugnal. If the party you are calling does not answer after several attempts, call "88" and ask whether the number has been changed or disconnected. Simple, isn't it? Bruce D. Nelson | UUCP: ...!rutgers!rochester!kodak!hawkeye!nelson Eastman Kodak Company | Voice: 716-726-7890 901 Elmgrove Road | Rochester, NY 14653-5219 |