covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert 13-Sep-1989 1134) (09/13/89)
There are two reasons that JSol may have believed that it was: 1. The #5 XBar there had "City Ring," which sounds a lot like the ring generators used in most Bell System SxS offices. 2. There was Direct Inward Dialing into some large company's on-premises SxS PBX. Another recent article referred to "that new-fangled #5 XBar" in the sixties. According to "Events in Telephone History," the first #5 XBar was installed on July 11, 1948, in Media, Pa. By the sixties, #5 XBar was certainly not "new-fangled" even in New England. /john