Installfests:Cats

[John Macdonald]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 09:07:47PM +0300, Peter wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 May 2005, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 
> >while it used to be 999 or 000 in many places (both of which took 
> >forever on rotary phones.  Gotta wonder who came up with those).  To
> 
> the telecom people who knew from experience that 000 is the number that 
> is least likely to be dialed by glitch in a rotary dialer system.

I recall reading once that the 1-9,0 sequence used in North
America was not universal and that 0-9 was used on some places
(and also some places laid the digits out in revers order around
the dial).  So, 9 and 0 weren't the longest to dial everywhere.

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