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[Greg Blakely]

Welcome from a 1972 graduate of Montrose High School.

There was a step office in Montrose when I lived there, and we only had to
dial the last five digits.  Or we could dial all 7.  My number was 249-4925.
But I could be reached at 9-4925 or (here is the weird part) 3-4925.

My dad worked down in Ouray, at the Camp Bird mine.  The exchange there only
required four-digit dialing, and was definitely older than Montrose.  It had
the older modulated dial tone rather than the precise dial tone of the rest
of Mountain Bell.

At the time I lived there, Montrose, Delta, Ridgeway, and Ouray were all
step offices, and Grand Junction was crossbar.

 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: voip-bounces at ckts.info [mailto:voip-bounces at ckts.info] 
> On Behalf Of Chris Craft
> 
> I'm located in the remote, far northwest corner of Colorado, 
> a place called Craig. (Pre-1995 303-824, now
> 970-824)  Before sometime in the 80's, we could still dial 5 
> digits for local calls, and you could hear the CO converting 
> touch tones to pulses. Now there's an Ericsson AXE-10 
> downtown and CLASS services didn't roll in here until 1995 
> and we finally could get caller-id.  I bet there are some 
> resources around for collectors somewhere... :)
>   I've finally reserved my office code and am hammering away 
> at dialplan to get FrankenSwitch
> (Asterisk+Vodavi) hooked in to CNET.  One of my stations will 
> be a rotary dial desk phone built in February of 1946 perhaps 
> someone on the list can help identify. (I'll post a link to 
> pix eventually.)
>   I'm just wondering which inter-office signalling I will 
> simulate when sending calls through?  Panel?  MF?
>  Who wants to make a suggestion?
> 
> Cheers,
> Chris Craft.
>