snipped-for-privacy@Backhome.org had written:
Mark Roberts wrote:
>> Thanks to the clipping files at the History Room of the Oakland Public
>> Library, I have been able to pin down the date that San Francisco and
>> Oakland went fully to 2L-5N numbers: August 10, 1947, a Sunday, at 12 >> midnight.
> I don't believe any telco has done a cut on Sunday night. It was
> typically Saturday night (or perhaps 2:00 AM on Sunday) in early post
> WWII years. Then, Bell tended to do ESS cutovers at 2:00 AM on
> Saturdays, so they would have the weekend to work out kinks.
But read the article: It *clearly* states that the switches would not have full capacity until 6 a.m. that Sunday and that work would not commence until the preceding Saturday night.
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