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Re: Monday humor (feeling old)
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"Harrington, Don" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 8 Apr 2002 13:22:09 -0700
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While I don't remember about five items on the list (which still makes me
older than dirt), where my wife grew up (Thousand Oaks, CA), the exchange
was small enough that you only had to dial the last four digits to reach
anyone in town!

Don Harrington
Sr. Systems Analyst
Facilities Applications Support
Shared Services Group
The Boeing Company
P.O. Box 3707 M/C 2R-32  NEW!
Seattle, WA  98124-2207
(v) 206-544-5679  NEW!  (f) 206-544-5788  NEW! (p) 206-797-6360

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-----Original Message-----
From: Wirt Atmar [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 08, 2002 1:18 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Monday humor (feeling old)


Tracy writes:

> I wasn't around for the strictly-alpha-prefix-six-char phone#s (wow, you
>  must REALLY be old!), but was around when the prefix consisted of two
>  letters and a number, as in FL(orida)5-8732.  When I was 9 or 10 years
>  old(?), I got to do the conversion of the alpha part to just-digits for
>  MountainStatesTel&Tel's directories, using Autocoder on a 1401 and
several
>  tape drives.  Yep, showing my age.

Lordy, lordy, lordy. You're a lot younger than I am (although I didn't know
that :-). My home phone number in Yuma, AZ was SUnset 3-94xx and my first
number here in Las Cruces, where I came to go to college in 1963, was
JAckson
6-6842. The nation didn't change over to all numbers until I was about 25
years old.

What's worse, both numbers still work!

Wirt Atmar

PS: If you dial the Yuma number, you'll get my mother, and that's the reason
that I blanked out the last two digits. But if you dial the Las Cruces
number, you'll get AICS Research. It's now one of our unlisted, in-line
rotated outside lines, but it certainly rings.

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