Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!killer!vector!nobody From: johnl@ima.ISC.COM Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: When DDD Began Message-ID: Date: 30 Jan 89 03:21:02 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 17 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Originally-From: harvard!ima.ISC.COM!johnl (John R. Levine) X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 39, message 4 In article telecom@bu-cs.BU.EDU (TELECOM Moderator) writes: >I think it is safe to say by the middle sixties DDD was pretty much a part >of American telephony. With the exception of Nevada toll stations, of >course, and the one place in Maine which kept its old fashioned service >for a few more years. I thought that Catalina Island, offshore near Los Angeles, had a manual exchange until about 1978. It was reputed to be the Bell System's last manual exchange. Regards, John Levine, johnl@ima.isc.com [Moderator's Note: I don't know when Avalon, CA (the town on the island) went dial. Was it as late as 1978? What about Martha's Vineyard, MA and Nantucket Island, MA? I know Vineyard Haven and Edgartown had manual service until sometime around the early seventies. PT]