jhf@att.att.com (09/27/89)
"John R. Levine" <johnl@esegue.segue.boston.ma.us> says: > There are other telephone historical spots around Boston. On Main Street in > Cambridge is a building with a sign telling us that the first long-distance > call happened there, between Cambridge and Boston. I presume in that > context long-distance means between different exchanges. Hmm. I visited the Bell Homestead (where Alexander's father lived) in Brantford, Ontario. According to one of the displays, the first long distance call was made between Brantford and Paris (Ontario). One of my old Bell Canada phonebooks made the same claim. Jeff Frontz Work: +1 614 860 2797 AT&T-Bell Labs (CB 1C-356) Cornet: 353-2797 att!jeff.frontz jeff.frontz@att.com Home: +1 614 794 3986