Installfests:Cats

[Stewart C. Russell]

Peter wrote:
> 
> 999 was likely a compromise adopted when 0/00
> started being used for international/interurban automatic dialling

999 in the UK dates back to 1937; way before automatic dialling. There
used to be an elaborate method of finding the 9 on a rotary dial in the
dark or in smoke that all kids were drilled to do. The various reasons
for choosing 999 are given here:
<http://www.fire.org.uk/advice/999history.htm>.

 Stewart

(who remembers mechanical Strowger exchanges, party [shared] lines and
three-digit local numbers)
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