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Posted by Steven Lichter on November 17, 2007, 10:06 am
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danny burstein wrote:
>hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com writes:
>
>>For college kids of that era, plenty still used the traditional mail
>>to communicate with parents, old friends, lovers, etc since long
>>distance charges, while dropping, were still expensive. When Bell
>>came out with big discounts for direct dialed calls after 11 pm,
>>college kids used it since they were often up at odd hours (of course
>>some roommates were not and didn't appreciated a midnight phone call.)
>
>I lived in the neighborhood next to West Harlem Community
>College (name changed to protect the innocent) in upper
>Manhattan in the 1970s.
>
>Pretty much anytime I tried making a long distance
>call from my home between 23:00 and midnight I'd
>get an "all circuits busy" intercept.
>
>Naturally every time the repair folk checked things
>out they were either doing it during the daytime
>or from another location.. so things were fine.
>
>I finally got ahold of someone who put two and two
>together and realized that the long distance trunks
>between the local central office (which served
>my exchange and the college's) and the Long Lines
>Center were getting maxed out when all the kids
>called out at 11 pm...
>
>
It looks like so CO engineers were not doing their work on busy time
trucking. I remember have to do re-arrangement a couple of times a year.
At least now with electronic offices and fiber it makes things a lot
easier to do.
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***** Moderator's Note *****
In the 1970's, traffic analysis was still driven by mechanical
counters, and the C.O. techs would record the readings and then
reset the counters. Most likely, they were taking readings for
the busy hour, and missed the surge at 11 p.m.
Even when the 1A came into service, it took a while for the
traffic engineers to get used to looking at hourly stats instead
of only the busy hour.
Bill Horne
Temporary Moderator
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