On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, at 8:15am, Ed Crowley wrote:
> I was shocked that when I arrived there in 1973 they still had five-digit
> dialing for in-town phones ...

  In 1985 or so, my home town still had five-digit in-town dialing, and
touch-tone dialing was a special service you had to order from the phone
company.  This was in south-eastern New Hampshire, which, while not a
bustling metropolis, was not exactly at the edge of civilization, either.

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