That's a new one on me. How did tapping instead of dialing save you the fourpence? I'd have thought that whatever allowed the call to go through a) didn't know the difference between tapping and dialing, and b) wouldn't go without being paid.
--- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Karl Marx and his followers, including some tatterdemalion hangers-on who have dragged their ideology into the 21st century, reasoned from individual cupidity to an indictment of the capitalist system. Marxists were wrong in doing so, because capitalism is a mechanism for coping with cupidity, not for enhancing it. -William F Buckley, Jr, 2003-04-25 */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike Sent: Saturday, February 29, 2020 01:42 Phone tapping was something we did in the 60's in my first job. We lived in a YMCA hostel with a single payphone and to save 4d (the price of a local call) you dialled zeroes and nines and tapped the other numbers. My girlfriend's number in the local village was easy, Harwell 300. On occasions a line engineer in the exchange would interrupt and tell at you for not paying. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
