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Article #619769Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Charlie Gibbs
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:29
Date: Sun, 04 Feb 2018 02:29
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On 2018-02-03, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com <hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
> On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 6:10:54 PM UTC-5, Charles Richmond wrote:
>
>> That would be KLondike 5-2368 ...
>
> When TouchTone and Trimline phones came out, they didn't use the
> traditional number card in the center of the dial, but put the
> number on a little strip. They also included the area code and
> the words "area code". To fit it all in, they usually just used
> the letters of the exchanged, ie KL, rather than spell it out (if
> the area hadn't been converted to all-numbers yet).
>
> Anyway, Philadelphia, the last holdout of exchange names, had an
> exchange, DEvonshire. They actually printed the whole name and
> used tiny type to squeeze it on the little number strips of newer
> telephone sets.
>
> (City Hall, which had MUnicipal 6, still has some agencies
> where their form still says MU 6, not 686, on it. Many city
> departments are still using the same phone number after 50 years.)
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'Cause he's got us All Digit Dialing.
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