Word: anc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Number Calling was the answer to the dilemma. Numbers appear at ten holes on a dial, and ANC gives 800 (8 times 10 times 10) possible three-digit central-office codes* an increase of nearly...
Lost Lust. In the Orwellian world of ANC there will be no telephone exchanges to take pride of comfort in. Philadelphia's old-guard PEnnypacker and stalwart FIdelity will be gone; San Francisco will lose its lusty KLondike and sunny VAlencia; Mobile's TUlip will wither alongside Cincinnati's BRamble and Santa Fe's YUcca. Fenton, MO., will be torn from it's cozy FIreside, while Chester, Pa., and its saucy GYpsy will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such...
Other advantages claimed for ANC: elimination of dialing errors caused by sound-alike exchange names such as MItchell and MUtual; no more confusion over dialing PA for PEnnsylvania instead of PE; elimination of letters themselves from dials, making them easier to use; the possibility of worldwide direct dialing, even to countries with exotic alphabets. Says Leland B. Lindberg, American Telephone & Telegraph spokesman: "This is the least undesirable way of increasing combinations...
...telephone researchers insist that over the short time it takes between looking up a number and dialing it, ANC's seven-digit numbers are just as easy to recall as those with two letters and five numbers. They admit, however, that permanently memorizing All-Number numbers takes a little more effort. An officially recommended procedure is to group the numbers into two parts, such as 571 (pause...
Calling Daddy. Meanwhile, in U.S. cities such as Chicago and Washington, where ANC's no-nonsense hand has already been felt, citizens are struggling along with a dual system. Some of them are making up their own exchanges, as memory jogs.- Conservative employees of one Chicago firm with the new 467 central office code are giving out their number as G.O.P...