On Sat 04 Apr 2009 06:52:24a, Jean B. told us...

> Mr. Bill wrote:
>> On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 08:27:05 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:
>>
>>> It's amusing, isn't it? Of course, such phones don't work well when
>>> one is instructed to press certain buttons.
>>
>> And kids today have never seen a phone number like IV-8-2450. The
>> I-V was for the Ivanhoe exchange in Lansing MI. Our familes home
>> number before area codes were even contemplated.
>>
> Ah yes. I am still well aware of the word prefix for our phone
> number.
>

I remember converting from letter prefixes to numbers. It was briefly
frustrating. There were some odd coincidences with the letters, too. In
Ohio, our home number was in the TUxedo exchange, whereas my dad's ofice was
in the UTah exchange, so both began 88...

Lest we never forget the movie title, BUtterfield 8.

--
Wayne Boatwright

"One man's meat is another man's poison"
- Oswald Dykes, English writer, 1709.