morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) (08/05/89)
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 UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov #Include quote.cute.standard | The opinions above probably do not even come cat flames.all > /dev/null | close to those of my employer(s), if any.