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Posted by Mark Roberts on October 25, 2005, 12:32 am
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> Mark Roberts wrote:
>> Thanks to the clipping files at the History Room of the Oakland Public
>> Library, I have been able to pin down the date that San Francisco and
>> Oakland went fully to 2L-5N numbers: August 10, 1947, a Sunday, at 12
>> midnight.
> I don't believe any telco has done a cut on Sunday night. It was
> typically Saturday night (or perhaps 2:00 AM on Sunday) in early post
> WWII years. Then, Bell tended to do ESS cutovers at 2:00 AM on
> Saturdays, so they would have the weekend to work out kinks.
But read the article: It *clearly* states that the switches would not
have full capacity until 6 a.m. that Sunday and that work would not
commence until the preceding Saturday night.
Mark Roberts | "A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity,
Oakland, Cal.| but rather by touching both at once."
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