Dialing Those Mysterious "1xx" and "0xx" Codes, 1974-1980
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- There are two high quality programs of dialing "1xx" codes from Greenville NC, starting here: • Dialing the "1xx" Code...
The Yonkers crossbar 5 had two outgoing long distance gateways: White Plains 4 "91411" over T-Carrier for the commonly called places like Virginia, and White Plains 2 "9141" over N1 carrier for the less often called places like British Columbia.
The Mamaroneck call to Warwick failed because White Plains 1 SENT the "039" to Warwick instead of skipping it. This translation error wasn't discovered and fixed because operators didn't use White Plains 1 "9144" for 914 inward operator calls.
I should have referred to the telco in Dale City as "Ma Continental," not "Ma Bell."
While many stops on my independent phone trips DO have AE's SATT, (e.g. Vanceboro & Williamston NC) Dale City has some OTHER system, possibly from Stromberg-Carlson.
In the early 70s the Pittsburgh 4A switch with the international gateway had recording ID "4127." It later became the regional center "4121," displacing the older 4A which became a sectional center "4122."
“ Sir!, you are doing SOMETHING with the phone!” Lolololo
lmao...that was funny.
You have SOME SORT of EQUIPMENT!
"...Well, thank you, ma'am." 😁
@Richard Conte Pardon? It was just a joke--in his other recordings, she says "You have some sort of equipment".
In undergrad, while trying to guess the Bell System technician's password for the month when the printout that we found dumpster diving the CO finally ran out, we kept catching the same darn intercept operator, leading to the [locally] famous trash talk from her, "You're not saying the right thing. If you don't stop, I'm calling security. [CLICK]"
@wm8s I used to dumpster dive in Santa Clara in the early 90s. Found alot of discarded gold, platinum, etc. Made on average 1000$ a night. Rode that gravy train until security got much stronger after 9/11. Made more money then than I did in my life for a 4 year period.
You know, Evan - from one phone phreak to another - there would be days and hours on end I would spend just dialing random area codes and just ACTUALLY getting those old canned recordings stating that the "number you have dialed is not in service at this time, in area code XXX" - I used to get all different intercept messages depending on the area of the state (in the case of a single area code for the state, like Montana with 406, etc.) you reached. I spent so many days during my summer vacations from 1973 to 1984 just keeping a notebook of the prefixes and would write into the individual Bell System central offices to get the locale I was reaching. By this time, I had reached all the area codes (exisrent at the time) and now i was on a quest to reach as many locales as possible. I had finally attained my goal of countless prefixes to area codes in 1984 - and I stil have those same logs from way back then I keep as nostalgia. Life was fun back then - and too bad we had to get old!
I used to do something similar with calling what I guessed would be non-working numbers overseas. To this day I can recite the German non-working number recording (even though I don't speak German).
@@BobPagani Kein Anschluss unter dieser Nummer? Ja? LOL! and How about: Auskunft, Bitte Warten Sie! :-) *coming from another phone freak who lived in Germany for a while.
@@hcb9450 Yes! That's it. I assume that translates as something like "There is nothing at this number." Is that correct?
this guy's voice is incredible
Back in the 90s, I used to dial random numbers. This was before u had to dial the area code. I remember my first call to someone's cell phone. They answered I said something and they replied "Sir this is a cell phone"
This kind of reminds me of that phone call that went on at the end of the call in the pink floyd song Young Lust when he was trying to get through to england. This stuff is pretty cool but as i was born in 79 most of it is before my time. I do remember one of the pioneering people in the modern switching networks was from my home town of Lorain Ohio, his name was Paul Stocker.
Interesting stuff! 😊
“Sir, what are you doing with the phone”?
“ Sir!, you are doing SOMETHING with the phone!” sounded like she was starting to get mad at the caller. i'd simply question it by asking "what are you trying to accomplish, if your trying to make a call, please don't forget the area code followed by either zero or a one.
I grew up in NYC and we moved to NJ when I was in middle school. Phone phreaking was a huge part of my teenage life and into my 20's.
In West-Germany, there were some hidden features which you could access by dialing 11, 12 or 13 pulses (which isn't possible with a normal rotary phone). I think 13 pulses connected you to a test-rig, which answered with beeps to indicate what was being measured. Later, the test-rig moved to a normal phone-number (117755 or something like that), and with the advent of digital switches it disappeared altogether.
I have seen an old test telephone with a dial that goes up to 11; That peg was marked "A." But in North America the "11", "12", "13" digits never did anything really special, at least not on purpose.
In Bell's #5 crossbar it would go to the "permanent signal" trunk as if the phone was left off hook. In Stromberg-Calson's XY it went to reorder tone.
In #1 ESS, running early 70's software, certain bugs COULD be exploited using those digits, but nothing done deliberately, used them.
@@evandoorbell4278 In the 1990s, Germany still used Strowger switches in a lot of cities. Some connections had to be made by the operator until the mid 1990s, especially those between East- and West-Germany.
Here's some footage of the late 1980s equipment in use here: th-cam.com/video/hTx9h3Sm29I/w-d-xo.html
(they're trying to get the phone number of a German hacker there; the whole documentary is based on what actually happened).
@@wuloki video is unavailable
You're showing me stuff my "back then" friends and I never knew existed!!!! We were more into reverse engineering 3-Slots, KTU's and kluging spare parts into a working intercom/PBX system. Watching this, all my late teen paranoia about the "Phone Cops" finding us was for naught. We were probably never on their radar!!! Since this info wasn't easily obtainable, the closest we ever got to real network playing was finding an obscure book in my college's Science Libes just to get the MF signalling tone frequencies - not that we had any way to recreate them!! And then we were too afraid to try what we learned. Back then we were kicking ourselves for throwing out all those Cap'n Crunch whistles we got as younger kids!!! We thought they were the "Key to the Network" back then!
this was a really cool episode. thanks evan.
✅ Hi Evan, did you ever make a smartphone ring tone of the Tandem tones pulsing out? It would be a nifty notification sound… I can’t tell how much pleasure all your recordings are. It’s like being in or seeing a DC3 airplane which btw you can play the deep bass with the speaker on a wood table (like a piano sound board) and it literally comes alive. Best always buddy. Jerry from Chicago
Hi Evan, no calls to 1101 (iirc) milliwatts or Test Boards?
My memory may be faulty, but I think that I remember dialing 118 for the time and temperature recording in Las Vegas, NV in the 1970s and 1980s.
Because I'd hear "Operator! Give me the police!" in so many old cartoons and TV shows, for most of my childhood I thought dialing 0 did the same thing as dialing 911.
@Richard Conte According to Wikipedia, “Regarding national U.S. coverage, by 1979, 26% of the U.S. population could dial the number. This increased to 50% by 1987 and 93% by 2000. As of December 2017, 98.9% of the U.S. population has access.”
@Richard Conte Either dial the Operator or dial the phone number of the desired service (Police/Fire/Ambulance) directly. That's why a lot of old phones have a big ugly sticker stuck to them with 3 telephone numbers for Police Fire and Medical or spots to write down your various emergency numbers
@paulpalinkas One of the first cities to utilize 911 was Fremont,ca. I know this because I used it when my grandfather had a massive heart attack in 1979. Most other cities in California didn't have 911 until the mid 80s
What’s the point of having the number at 2:26?
Training new operators to learn the coin sounds.
14:24 most operators were female at the time. Its rare to hear a male operator
8:58 that’s Penelope Pitstop 😂🤣
14:24 Special operator?
It's an operator who has no forwarding privileges or ability to try numbers for you, all they can do is tell you that the number was disconnected or changed, so that they can get off the phone quickly and the normal operators wouldn't be tied up with forwarding requests to dead numbers
Telephone companies in the Dominican Republic now are using for people that only want internet service without voice service number starting with 1XX - XXXX after the areas codes 809/829 and 849
Would this be for "naked" DSL internet, I'd presume?
@@RyanSchweitzer77 Yes, they call it also dead lines as calls can not be make. Also to program TV cable service.
Recall doing exactly this, as a geeky 12yo, from a draughty British phone box (that smelled srongly of wee, as they all did).
If I'd have been a few years older, I would certainly have gotten heavilly into phone phreaking. That all ended when I got caught climbing onto the school roof at night, to clip on to the phone line.
This is probably weird but these people like the woman that said sir you are doing something with the phone or the guy hitting the bell, I wonder where they are now, are they still alive.. now I'm getting phreaked out.. 😬😆
Why they never supported special homosexual special rights ?
Weren't the mexicans friendler then ?
Some are still alive I'm sure probably in their 70s or 80s. Most have probably passed away these recordings are 40-50 years old. Life happens, people die everyday. Life goes on. I'm glad there are recordings of these systems. Stuff like this is important.
What would that "Special Operator" have been there for?
The term, “special operator“ whenever used in the old days referred to an operator who receives a call to a telephone number that has been disconnected, changed, etc. the special operator doesn’t have the ability to help you make your call, all she can do is give you information about the number you were trying to reach. They probably used that term so that customers wouldn’t ask the special operator to make a call for them
"Are you paying for the call here?"
Wish there are more phone episodes
poor warwick new york operator
ummm, ummmm, im sorry operator,. i'll give up and play with my cb radio instead LOL. and yes i have played on the phone, still do today but because you can play games on it now,. plus surf the web, so in essence, im playing on the phone again LOL.
Your dream was an example of remote viewing or you had an OOBE. If you’re interested in those kinds of dreams check out the work of Stanley Krippener
I appreciate your optimism, but no, that dream was not the viewing of anything actual. It was SYMBOLIC of the Vancouver tandem. What I saw were composited images from my personal past, EG the room itself was based on part of a church I visited once in Washington DC.
During 1986 and 1987 I spent several weeks at the Monroe Institute, which included sitting down with Robert Monroe and Joe McMonagle, so take it from me, this wasn’t one of those. Interesting, however, that you thought of that while not knowing (consciously) that I’d been to the Monroe Institute :-)
Only a true American knows Jenny's number
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I was a phone phreak....always called local 211. What s ya numba!!! Call me! Hang up! Call me!!
Where and when?