[comp.dcom.telecom] Natick Was Not SxS

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