Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: stiatl!pda@gatech.edu (Paul D. Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: "1-234-5678" mystery number Message-ID:Date: 12 Aug 89 03:03:08 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "Paul D. Anderson" Organization: Sales Technologies Inc., "The Procedure IS the product" Lines: 14 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 291, message 9 of 9 >>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 Here in Atlanta, 1-234-5678 is a valid long distance number, but it has been disconnected. 1-234-5679 and 1-234-5670 ring and ring so I presume that the exchange is valid. Dialing 234-5678 results in a 'You must dial 1 when calling long distance, please...'. But where it is, I'm not sure. paul -- Paul Anderson (w) (404) 841-4000 gatech!stiatl!pda (h) (404) 662-0799