Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 4:59 pm
by Guntrader
I've been doing it for years already. Is that just for landlines?
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 5:18 pm
by Duke EB
Guntrader wrote:I've been doing it for years already. Is that just for landlines?
Me too. I didn't know you could still just dial 7 digits.
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 5:25 pm
by PMB
I think it's been 2-3 decades since we were told this was a requirement... I might have still been in the navy, as I recall my father grumbling about how technology wasn't supposed to lead to more complications when I was home on leave.
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 6:31 pm
by golddigger14s
Land line, what is that? I program a number in my cell, then just press on a name. 10 digit, who cares.
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:44 pm
by PTmorgan
In Colorado, we've had to use the full area code for well over a decade. Colorado added the 720 area code intermingled with the old 303 area code.
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:45 pm
by MadPick
Duke EB wrote:
Guntrader wrote:I've been doing it for years already. Is that just for landlines?
Me too. I didn't know you could still just dial 7 digits.
Now I'm tempted to make some 7-digit calls tonight just to try it . . . .
But the reality is that I hate talking on the phone, so I won't.
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:52 pm
by PMB
MadPick wrote:Now I'm tempted to make some 7-digit calls tonight just to try it . . . . But the reality is that I hate talking on the phone, so I won't.
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:53 pm
by mcyclonegt
In the early 90s my dad was swapping over a phone switch system in West Texas from 4 digit to 7. It was one of the last ones in the State, there were old people beating on the door to the phone office yelling at him to turn it back. That shit was funny. Some people get mad over the dumbest shit.
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:54 pm
by MadPick
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 7:55 pm
by PMB
MadPick wrote:Naw
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 9:57 pm
by RocketScott
Outdated for yet another reason:
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Fri Jul 28, 2017 10:07 pm
by Guntrader
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 7:47 am
by Nate
I can remember word prefixes as part of a phone number. Mine was Melrose.
Melrose 5, 2819.
And my grandparents had an old wall phone at the ranch, where you would jiggle the hook to connect to the exchange operator, who would then complete your call.
And don't forget party lines...
Jeez, now I feel old....
Re: 10 digit dialing required in Western WA starts Saturday
Posted: Sat Jul 29, 2017 8:02 am
by Soldier_Citizen
PMB wrote:I think it's been 2-3 decades since we were told this was a requirement... I might have still been in the navy, as I recall my father grumbling about how technology wasn't supposed to lead to more complications when I was home on leave.
I thought your dad had to send communications via the pony express when you were in the navy?
