[GTALUG] Landline and Bell revisited.

[James Knott]

On 2023-09-07 13:21, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> You should see the fun when you get connected to the off shore support 
> people trying to diagnose a problem with a party line.
> I bet you 75% of the people on this list don't even know what that is. 

This is one reason I prefer Rogers.  All their support people are in Canada.

I remember party lines, as we were on one when I was a young kid.  I 
also remember when 7 digit dialing came in.  Incidentally, back in 1975, 
the first time I went to Armstrong, Ont. in my work, it was just after 
they switched from 2 to 5 digit dialing!