I happen to drive past the SBC campus on Central Ave, near the I-90 NW of Chicago on my way to work of a morning. They have taken down the SBC wierd inifinity...
... The database and search features of the project are temporarily down, pending a major redesign. The current design was originally done seven years ago in...
Are there any NYCity history experts here? Someone sent me an email inquiring when PLaza 3- actually first started in New York City. They are trying to narrow...
Yes, the article was July 1954. Oddly enough, the number they used to demonstrate how dialing works was 318 MArket 4-9970, which was supposed to be a...
Mark et al.: PLAza was one of the prefixes whose third digit was changed in the 1930 renumbering. PLAza became PLaza 3. Why there were some third-digit changes...
The time number was and still is ROchester 7 plus any four digits (officially ROchester 7-8900). From 1929 to 1947, it was ROchester 8900. There was no RO9 =...
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We have the chart for Chicago here now, so now all we need is the one for Philadelphia and one for Boston, or did I miss those already? Charlie ... From:...
... There is an article on Phily's change from 3L-4N to 2L-5N in the Autumn 1946 issue (v.25 #3) of Bell Telephone Magazine: "Philadelphia Goes 2-5" by Harold...
Another question: What areas of Bell used 2L-4N type numbering prior to going to some sort of 7 digit arrangement? I know it was used in some of the SWB...
... I've just received issue #127 in my mail, timestamped 3:11 p.m. EDT today. ... Although the digits 2 through 6 correspond with the city name, it seems that...
I apologize on the time number. I was citing it from memory, didn't have the article in front of me. Charles of Schaumburg. ... From: "hamiltonhugh"...
One more small question. Does anybody have an idea why Chicago was the last of the US 3L-4N cities to convert? Surely Chicago had a larger population than...
... Actually, you've got it reversed. Chicago came before Boston. ... I have no idea for the reason that the 1940s changes were done in the order they were...
... Well, ironically, Townson released a new issue of Telecom Digest this Thursday afternoon, after no issues since the previous one this past Sunday. And he...
I was wondering, since all 3 were converted right after the war, if it did, indeed have something to do with standardization for DDD. I wonder how big the...
... Along with the STD letters and director-area 3L-4N numbers, I should have also mentioned the LOCAL routing codes which used letters based on the...
... What's the story on the entries such as BERkshire / BErkshire 7 and REGent / REgent 4 ? Did some offices actually have 5-digit station numbers within them...
I can't answer for New York, but in Chicago there were, in fact PULlman 1xxxx numbers prior to 1948. I've got a couple examples in my father's high school...
The standard Western Electric manual switchboards had a capacity of 10,500 lines, and some Bell companies (but not all) maxed prefixes out. In such cases...
What do I have to do or have to see Hugh Hamilton's file on NYC phone exchanges that he just put into the Yahoo group? I have both Adobe 4.0 and Adobe 7.0....
Hi: The file was created with Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional. If you look at www.adobe.com , the Acrobat Reader is now at 7.0.7. You may want to upgrade the...
You may be able to read the file on an earlier version anyway, so long as the document doesn't use any later features. It works fine on Acrobat Reader 5.0....
What part of the country does Ms. Bellinger live, has she lived there long and does she know how old the milk bottle is? Walter Fox ... From: Margaret...
... I can tell you that she's Canadian and her inquiry is also most likely related to Canada as well. Her email address is with Rogers, which is a Canadian...
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