Installfests:Cats

[John Macdonald]

On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 04:23:24PM -0400, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
>  Stewart
> 
> (who remembers mechanical Strowger exchanges, party [shared] lines and
> three-digit local numbers)

I still have a party line (at the cottage).  You can't get a
new party line any more, but they can't make you change to a
(much higher priced) regular line.  That area switched from
3 digit numbers (you actually had to dial 5 digits but the
first 2 digits were always the same for everyone in the area)
about 20 years ago, though.  I wouldn't be surprised if they
had a Strowger switch until that time, too, but I don't know.

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