Out here 408-999-1111 gives "The Number You Have Reached is Not in Service Arch CA-3 Invalid" in a pleasant male alto/tenor voice. However 1-415-999-1111 gets...
... California has been quite "anti-overlay" for some years, although they finally have accepted that relief for the 310 area code in southern CA ,pst;u along...
These are areas which have mandatory ten-digit dialing yet don't have any "real" overlay area codes at present -- (or will soon have mandatory ten-digit...
As we now enter 2006, it still looks like another "slow" year for "new area code" activity. There are only four new NPA codes announced so far for 2006: 762 to...
... Found it. It's LOnesome 7-7203 -- Hawkshaw Hawkins. Somehow 567-7203 just wouldn't convey the right sentiment! -Paul....
Paul Coxwell
paulcoxwell@...
Jan 2, 2006 11:30 am
1647
... Ah, that explains it, thanks. Those Eureka/InfoHighway routings on 976 numbers were weird though, because a lot of the time I'd hear the "zero zero one"...
Paul Coxwell
paulcoxwell@...
Jan 2, 2006 11:44 am
1648
... There is no "public" website that I know of listing AT&T's (remaining) 4ESS switches. In 2003/04 (and maybe during 2005?) AT&T begn to remove some of their...
I wonder if the recordings with "trailers" branded as Eureka/InfoHighway might actually be from the 976 PAY-PAY-PAY per-call "info service" provider? In some...
... I know that this is a "late" reply... but I don't know if France ever used '11'. If there was never '11' code, then there is no potential conflict with...
... That's "Wichita Lineman." I was always under the impression that he was singing about working on electrical distribution rather than telephone lines...
Paul Coxwell
paulcoxwell@...
Jan 2, 2006 12:49 pm
1652
... I'm not certain, but as far as I can remember the older lists of 1x service codes didn't have 11 assigned. 12 and 13 were definitely assigned, and...
Paul Coxwell
paulcoxwell@...
Jan 2, 2006 1:17 pm
1653
... But it continues... "I hear you singing in the wire. I can hear you thru the whine." which makes me think of a telephone line... "And the Wichita Lineman, ...
... From the lyrics, it's probably true that the song refers to an elecreical lineman. However, because it was one of Ernestine Tomlin's favorite songs, it's...
... The Washington-Baltomore area in the Mid-Atlantic has 10 digit local dialing, though as I remember, it's been 5 years plus since I lived there, 11 digit...
In the early 1980s, there was a song by "Morris Day & the Time", called "777-9311". I wonder how many people actually had this number! But chances are,...
RE: Wichita Lineman "I hear you singing in the wire. (Hum or "singing" caused by the wind creating a vibration in the wires) I can hear you thru the whine."...
... Stevie Ray Vaughan also had _Texas_Flood_: "Well there's floodin' down in Texas, all of the telephone lines are down Well there's floodin' down in Texas,...
I live in the 513-777 exchange area...and back when that song was popular (let me just date myself while I'm at it)...of course we dialed it and got a ...
I have a question for the group. What is your favorite telephone number you’ve had (or have)? With all sorts of numbers out there: home, work, fax, cell,...
... None of the numbers I've had personally stand out as being particularly "interesting," although the family number around 1980 really sticks in my mind just...
Paul Coxwell
paulcoxwell@...
Jan 3, 2006 12:17 pm
1663
You used to be able to ask The Phone Company for a specific number, and if it was available in your exchange area they'd assign it to you for no extra charge....
... 305/954 - > 518. That's a long way to move just to get a new phone number! ;-) -Paul....
Paul Coxwell
paulcoxwell@...
Jan 3, 2006 4:24 pm
1665
... I had 549-5000 after I had complained to New England Telephone about service going out on the 8-party line I was on. My town was serviced by a WECO 356...
... Not my number, but some friends of mine when I was in the dorms in college.. The campus had a Centrex system. Everything on campus was in the 26x set of...
... 10d dialing is required for all calls in both Maryland (301/240 and 410/443 overlays) and in most of Northern Virginia (703/571 overlay), but is *not* ...
... ...and IIRC, there's a chirp or two of 2600 in there :p -SC -- Stanley Cline // Telco Boi // sc1 at roamer1 dot org // www.roamer1.org "it seems like all...
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