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Originally Posted by Gumby
Apropos of nothing in particular, I just recalled that when I was a boy living in Hawaii, we originally only had 6 digits in our telephone number. They must have run out of numbers, because shortly before we moved back to the Mainland in 1970 they added another digit.
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Yes we had a trick that we could dial the last three digits to connect to local numbers in our 6-digit exchange. Then came 7 diigits for a long time before 10 digits and finally an overlay area code. The 10 digit code had all sorts of rules for what was long distance. That overlay was for cell phones initially and they avoided all the funny rules.
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