Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (Charles Daffinger) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Bay of Eagle Fiasco Message-ID:Date: 9 Aug 89 16:33:06 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 286, message 5 of 8 >OK, gang, another mystery from the AT&T system of the late 1960s-early 1970s: >Once upon a time, my brother (who was about ten years old at the time) picked >up the phone and dialed: >1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0 >[Moderator's Note: I just now tried it of curiosity. Dialing 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 >sent me to immediate intercept with a message saying, "When dialing a call >outside the 312 area, you must dial '1' before the number. When calling >within 312, do not dial '1' first." PT] Here I got 'the number you have dialed has been disconnected or no longer in service. If you feel that you have dailed the correct number, please hang up and try again. Thank you. -charles -- Charles Daffinger >Take me to the river, Drop me in the water< (812) 339-7354 cdaf@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu {pur-ee,rutgers,pyramid,ames}!iuvax!cdaf Home of the Whitewater mailing list: whitewater-request@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu