Subj : Re: I remember when: 10MB hdd, 7-digit phone #s
To   : August Abolins
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Sun Mar 28 2021 07:28:20

August wrote:
> Hello Rob!
> 
> ** On Saturday 27.03.21 - 00:40, you wrote to me:
> 
>  RM> ..It also wasn't until a few years after I got here that,
>  RM> on local calls, we had to dial more than 4 digits. These
>  RM> days a local call requires 10 digits..
> 
> Just 4 digits?  I thought it was a minimum 7 digits since the  
> 50's everywhere in Ontario.  I still remember the phone number  
> my family had when we lived in Toronto in the 60s.

Back in England in the late 70's we had a 4 digit phone number.

Later in the 80's when dialing locally you could get away with dialing 6
digits and not have to put the 4 digit area code. For other local exchanges
there was a 2 digit number to make 8 numbers in total.

Last time I checked, they added a digit to the exchange so now they have 11
digits in the UK for long distance dialing. 

>  RM> I remember when a 10 MEGAbyte hard drive was Huge..
>  RM> Who'd ever need anything bigger than that ?     B)

I had a 10MB for my BBC Micro. Couldn't get close to filling it.

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