cramer@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Clayton Cramer) (08/08/89)
In article <telecom-v09i0275m05@vector.dallas.tx.us>, morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) writes: # In the late 60' or early 70's I visited Fort Benton a few times. I remember # that the telephone system was SxS, and located in the back of someone's barn, # and owned by the Tri County Telephone Assoc. It was either a 3 or 4 digit # system and could be dialed from the outside world. Inside the town you # dialed 4 digits, I seem to remember the first was always "3". It was 1+ # for anything outside the town, even the operator was 1+0 because she was # in the next town down. Information was 1+411 and came from Great Falls. # I was told later that repair was 3611 and was an answering machine. # I have no idea what is current in Fort Benton - I was last there in 1972. # Mike Morris You want unique phone companies? I've got one for you. When I worked for Harris Digital Telephone Systems in the early 1980s, we had a customer in Alaska who used a pair of our D1200 switches to provide local phone service 18 hours/day -- at the end of the day, he would power down, and everyone went without service during the night. To a city boy like me, this was a real shocker -- phone service from someone's basement. -- Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer A pacifist who calls the police isn't one; hired violence is still violence. Disclaimer? You must be kidding! No company would hold opinions like mine!