DREUBEN@eagle.wesleyan.edu) (DOUGLAS SCOTT REUBEN) (06/16/90)
In response to Carl Moore's posting about 212/718 (and 516 and lower 914) exchanges "identifying" themselves by dialing xxx-9901... Try calling 718-855/643/403/(+ others) -9901. It used to say all the exchanges in the Bridge Street (Brooklyn) 5ESS. Now all it says is "You have reached the Bridge Street #5 ESS, now including the 403 code...". Great, if I were working for NY Tel I'd really want to know that it "now" includes the 403 code! What about the other 7 exchanges?!? Oh, and this only seems to work on NY Tel's NYC Region DMSs and 5ESSs. If you dial xxx-9901 on older systems (Crossbar, 1/1AESS, Step-by-Step (are there any left?)), you get a computer telling you the area code and the exchange you had dialed. (IE, 7-1-8-6-4-3.) Sounds like the 958 ANA (?) voice to me. In case anyone cares, here are some 99xx "suffixes" that 'work' in NY: 9901- (see above) 9902- sometimes like 9901 9907- 600 ohm terminator (or something like that...it just picks up the phone and hangs...someone told me that 9907/9908 used to be looops). 9908- " 9941- repair office, used in some exchanges (611 in NYC/Long Island and 1-890- 6611 gets the same thing is Westchester). 9950- Business office in some exchanges 9951-9969- Standard recordings, such as "The call you have made requires a 25 cent [10 cent in NY Tel's CT service area] deposit.." Try 718-520-9960. 9970- Busy (also works in North Jersey, and upstate NY, like Ithaca and 607- 257 Xbar exchange) 9971- Reorder. More prevalent on the Xbars, but a few older ESSs give a reorder on -9971. Also works occasionally in North Jersey (201). Finally, does anyone know what a "DS-0" switch is? (Try 516-724-9901.) Is a DS-0 some sort of DMS?? If you are calling long distance, calls to 9901 RECORDINGS (ie, DMS 5ESSs) don't bill/return supervision, while calls to the older Xbars and 1/1AESSs usually do bill. Of course, you can just use MCI and not worry about it - they'll bill you in any case! :-) Doug dreuben@eagle.wesleyan.edu / @wesleyan.bitnet (...and the rest on my LOCAL entourage know how to reach me! :-) )