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From: Brian Harvey
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1985 11:13

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The other week when the Telco person was out to install my MIT Centrex
line he dialed 200 225-1111 to get back a voice identification of my
number.  (There were two lines and he wanted to know which was which.)
What's with "200"?  Is this a universal new system for calling up CO
machinery?  Or is it MIT-specific or Cambridge-specific?  The last time
I was paying attention to such things, it used to be xxx-99xx.

I'm not a subscriber to the newsgroup so please reply directly.  Thanks
in advance...

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Subject: number identification number
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