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Posted by Gene S. Berkowitz on January 1, 2008, 2:51 pm
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> On Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:03:26 -0600 John Mayson _john@mayson.us_
> (mailto:john@mayson.us) wrote:
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/122907dntex666exchange.4d47a.html
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> > "REEVES, La. After decades of living with what Mayor Scott Walker calls a
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> > stigma, residents of this southwest Louisiana village are getting a new
> > telephone exchange, one without the biblical connotations attached to
> > their current 666."
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> > --
> > Austin, Texas, USA
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> In the 1960s when Centrex service was relatively new, Phillips Petroleum
> headquarters in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, was offered the choice of prefixes
660,
> 661 and 666. They chose 661.
Which is the fastest of the three to dial on a 60's era phone, and
probably saved them days per year of wasted dialing time.
--Gene
***** Moderator's Note *****
The reason, no doubt, for the nnx-1212 numbers for police. Funny, I
never thought about it before.
It's sort of like saying "You can get in on the ground floor": you
wouldn't think anyone would want to rent an office on the ground floor
of a new building, until you realize that the phrase came from the
time before buildings had elevators.
Bill Horne
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Posted by Justa Lurker on January 1, 2008, 4:05 pm
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Gene S. Berkowitz wrote:
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> Which is the fastest of the three to dial on a 60's era phone, and
> probably saved them days per year of wasted dialing time.
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> --Gene
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>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
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> The reason, no doubt, for the nnx-1212 numbers for police. Funny, I
> never thought about it before.
>
Just curious, why then was "911" chosen for emergency use instead of,
say, "211" ?
***** Moderator's Note *****
I don't know for sure, but I'd bet it's to prevent accidentally
dialing the first digit. Then again, it might have been for some other
reason.
The nice part about being the moderator, even temporarily, is that I
can guess about stuff and look like I'm smart when I luck out.
Bill Horne
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Posted by Steven Lichter on January 1, 2008, 11:00 pm
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> Gene S. Berkowitz wrote:
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>> Which is the fastest of the three to dial on a 60's era phone, and
>> probably saved them days per year of wasted dialing time.
>>
>> --Gene
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>>
>> ***** Moderator's Note *****
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>> The reason, no doubt, for the nnx-1212 numbers for police. Funny, I
>> never thought about it before.
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> Just curious, why then was "911" chosen for emergency use instead of,
> say, "211" ?
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>
> ***** Moderator's Note *****
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> I don't know for sure, but I'd bet it's to prevent accidentally
> dialing the first digit. Then again, it might have been for some other
> reason.
>
> The nice part about being the moderator, even temporarily, is that I
> can guess about stuff and look like I'm smart when I luck out.
>
> Bill Horne
> Temporary Moderator
>
By the time 911 cam along the companies had already switch all the
numbers like 114 to 411 and so on, I would guess that would be the
reason being that may have been the next number in the series. I know
in the 60's Los Angeles had a single emergency # 116, they advertised it
as IF in a fix dial 116. I wonder why 999 was not used like in England,
does Canada use 911?
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Posted by on January 1, 2008, 11:02 pm
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> Just curious, why then was "911" chosen for emergency use instead of,
> say, "211" ?
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> ***** Moderator's Note *****
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> I don't know for sure, but I'd bet it's to prevent accidentally
> dialing the first digit. Then again, it might have been for some other
> reason.
I think 211 was already in use, along with 411 and 611.
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Posted by on January 1, 2008, 11:01 pm
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> The reason, no doubt, for the nnx-1212 numbers for police. Funny, I
> never thought about it before.
Did you ever think about the initial area code assignments of 212,
213, and 312?
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