edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) (09/27/89)
In Today's San Francisco Chronicle (reprinted without permission:) "The A's announced plans for sale of tickets for any American League Championship Series at the Coliseum. "The sale, which begins at noon Thursday, will be by phone only through the BASS/Ticketmaster system. Approximately 2000 ALC strips ... will be available. " Phone numbers are in the 408-988, 415-762, 707-762, 916-932, 209-226, 209-466, and 1-800-225 prefixes. All numbers suffix with 2277 which is (surprise!) BASS. Does anybody know if these are "Choke" exchanges? If not, I think phone service in northern CA is going to be history on Thursday at noon. :-) Ed Greenberg uunet!apple!netcom!edg [Moderator's Note: Meanwhile, the Illinois Bell outage last Friday night continues to stir controversy here. The figures are in now, and it appears there were <twenty-eight million> -- yes, million! -- call attempts to Ticketron between Friday, 6 PM and Sunday midnight. Between 25,000 - 30,000 actually got through to purchase tickets. Some pizza delivery manager, in his ignorance, is talking about a class action lawsuit against Bell due to the business he lost because pizza orders could not get through to his establishment. Well, I was off line on the modem here for almost an hour! I disconnected from a BBS at 6:02 PM, and could not raise dial tone without the modem timing out for several hours. To get into the Northwestern Annex box Friday night, I clicked on my speakerphone, listened in the background to the clicks, pops and cross-talk (it was wild Friday night!) and worked at my desk. Once dial tone came crashing through, I quickly jumped on the modem, dialed manually, cut off the speaker and hoped to goodness that I would ring through, which I did. It was a gas! PT]
edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) (09/28/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0410m04@vector.dallas.tx.us> I write: >"The A's announced plans for sale of tickets for any American League >Championship Series at the Coliseum. >"The sale, which begins at noon Thursday, will be by phone only through >the BASS/Ticketmaster system. Approximately 2000 ALC strips ... will be >available. " Yesterdays news indicates that Pacific Bell is taking specific steps to avoid a fiasco like the one in Illinois. They state that each CO will send excess calls to recordings, so that the network doesn't come to it's knees. The news sounds like Pacific Bell is doing something new to protect against overload, not that the facility has always been in place. Of course, this was a PR person talking to the news, and perhaps he was simplifying. He also made the point that Bass receives calls from four different CO's in four different area codes, rather than one central CO being on the receiving end. Well, it's an hour and a half away from H-Hour, (the Giants are doing the same thing tonight) so we'll see, I guess. Me -- I'm off to the ballgame. -edg Ed Greenberg uunet!apple!netcom!edg
jim@eda.com (Jim Budler) (09/28/89)
claris!netcom!edg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) writes: } "The A's announced plans for sale of tickets for any American League } Championship Series at the Coliseum. } Phone numbers are in the 408-988, 415-762, 707-762, 916-932, 209-226, } 209-466, and 1-800-225 prefixes. All numbers suffix with 2277 which } is (surprise!) BASS. } Does anybody know if these are "Choke" exchanges? If not, I think } phone service in northern CA is going to be history on Thursday at } noon. :-) I don't recognize many of these but 408-988 is in Santa Clara (city), CA. I doubt if it's a choke. Thing I recall being in that exchange: The Northern Telecom Manufacturing plant. (I worked there) The Tymnet computer dial in lines for the Bay Area. Jim Budler address = uucp: ...!{decwrl,uunet}!eda!jim domain: jim@eda.com compuserve: 72415,1200 voice = +1 408 986-9585 fax = +1 408 748-1032
cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Clayton Cramer) (09/29/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0410m04@vector.dallas.tx.us>, claris!netcom!edg@ames. arc.nasa.gov (Edward Greenberg) writes: # "The A's announced plans for sale of tickets for any American League # Championship Series at the Coliseum. # "The sale, which begins at noon Thursday, will be by phone only through # the BASS/Ticketmaster system. Approximately 2000 ALC strips ... will be # available. " # Phone numbers are ......... is (surprise!) BASS. # Does anybody know if these are "Choke" exchanges? If not, I think # phone service in northern CA is going to be history on Thursday at # noon. :-) Sure enough. I got home yesterday, and my wife complained that none of the phones worked. Dial tone was taking from a few seconds to minutes in the 707 795 exchange. Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer What shall it be today? Watch Three's Company? Or unify the field theory? Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!
johnw@gatech.edu (John Wheeler) (10/02/89)
If anyone is making a list, the "choke" exchange serving Atlanta is
404-741.
Turner John Wheeler
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