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Message-ID: <20200315225721.GA32650@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 22:57:21 +0000
From: Moderator <telecomdigestsubmissions@remove-this.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: How to clean the bundle of germs that is your phone
NEW YORK - You're washing your hands countless times a day to try to
ward off the coronavirus.
You should also wash that extension of your hand and breeding ground
for germs - your phone. Tests done by scientists show that the virus
can live for two to three days on plastic and stainless steel.
https://fox4kc.com/tracking-coronavirus/how-to-clean-the-bundle-of-germs-that-is-your-phone/
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Bill Horne
Telecom Digest Moderator
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Message-ID: <20200315174625.GA26738@telecom.csail.mit.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 17:46:25 +0000
From: Bill Horne <invalid@see-sig.telecom-digest.org>
Subject: Re: Keystone
On Sat, Mar 14, 2020 at 02:08:32PM -0700, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> On 3/8/20 20:39, Michael Moroney wrote:
>
> >Also for some stupid reason I remember 113 was a special number on our
> >own phone system, but now, I have no clue what that number was even
> >for! Did some areas have several 11x special numbers?
>
> Pacific Telephone in Southern California did.
>
> 113 - Information (later called "Directory Assistance")
> 114 - Repair service
> 116 - Emergency
> 117 - Test board (not advertised to the public)
This list reminds me of the codes we were taught to use on toll test
boards at New England Telephone:
121 - Inward Operator
131 - Rate & Route
141 - Inforation
161 - Toll Test Board
I don't know if the "Toll Test Board" codes were used anywhere but AT&T: all
the N.E.T. offices I worked with had regular phone numbers. I don't know why.
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Message-ID: <kJbbG.1010563$hD4.158759@fx47.iad>
Date: 14 Mar 2020 14:08:32 -0700
From: "Jay Hennigan" <jay@west.net>
Subject: Re: Keystone
On 3/8/20 20:39, Michael Moroney wrote:
> Also for some stupid reason I remember 113 was a special number on our
> own phone system, but now, I have no clue what that number was even
> for! Did some areas have several 11x special numbers?
Pacific Telephone in Southern California did.
113 - Information (later called "Directory Assistance")
114 - Repair service
116 - Emergency
117 - Test board (not advertised to the public)
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