Gil wrote: > I recall two letters and five digits, and earlier two letters (the first two of >a word) and four digits. An abbreviated word may be easier to remember >than two arbitrary digits. But Telco gave up when they exhausted >pronouncable digraphs.
Ah, the good old KLondike-5-xxxx. One of my favorite obsolete jokes: <ring> <small boy>Hello? <man>Is your daddy there? <boy>No. <man>Can you write? Can you take a message for him? <boy>OK. <man>Tell him Mr. Jones called, and to call him back at CApital-5-1234. <long silence> <boy, almost in tears>I don't know how to make a capital 5! Just try explaining THAT one to a modern teen: Kid answers home phone? House HAS home phone? No CallerID? No answering machine/voicemail? And then the actual punchline: "What is this CApital-5 business?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
