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In answer to the question about phone dials, the "code" was the
same as it is now, with 6 being MNO. At least that's what's on
the Western Electric 302, made from 1937 to 1958 and described
as the Bell System's mainstay, along with the other phones on
this nostalgic page
<http://www.telephonearchive.com/phones/we/we302.html>.
Hoping to post something more substantive sometime,
Jerry Friedman
--- On Sat, 5/3/08, piers smith <piersmsmith@YAHOO.CO.UK> wrote:
> Yes, this has puzzled me. How does the third call lead to
> that conclusion? And why does the mother think that the
> caller can distinguish O and zero? On mid 20th-century dial
> telephones there was no O with the 6 (just MN), or am I
> wrong? If there was, didn't it share the same slot as
> the zero?
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same as it is now, with 6 being MNO. At least that's what's on
the Western Electric 302, made from 1937 to 1958 and described
as the Bell System's mainstay, along with the other phones on
this nostalgic page
<http://www.telephonearchive.com/phones/we/we302.html>.
Hoping to post something more substantive sometime,
Jerry Friedman
--- On Sat, 5/3/08, piers smith <piersmsmith@YAHOO.CO.UK> wrote:
> Yes, this has puzzled me. How does the third call lead to
> that conclusion? And why does the mother think that the
> caller can distinguish O and zero? On mid 20th-century dial
> telephones there was no O with the 6 (just MN), or am I
> wrong? If there was, didn't it share the same slot as
> the zero?
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