I think MAKE got the old-time telephone number pattern wrong: they are missing a digit. Remember that song Pennsylvania 6-5000? The word at the beginning of the telephone number represented just the first two digits, you still needed five more digits, not four, to complete the standard seven digit telephone number.
My bad. I didn't read the whole Wiki article I quoted ;-( ! So they did use some 3 letter 4 digit numbers, but anyways the PE6-5000 song made me think to look it up. Learn something new everyday.
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I think MAKE got the old-time telephone number pattern wrong: they are missing a digit. Remember that song Pennsylvania 6-5000? The word at the beginning of the telephone number represented just the first two digits, you still needed five more digits, not four, to complete the standard seven digit telephone number.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange_names
My bad. I didn't read the whole Wiki article I quoted ;-( ! So they did use some 3 letter 4 digit numbers, but anyways the PE6-5000 song made me think to look it up. Learn something new everyday.