snipped-for-privacy@bbs.cpcn.com wrote:
>> There used to be a recorded weather forecast for New York at
>> 212-976-1212. Westchester County had 914-976-1212.
> Most of the northeast except Connecticut used 936 for the weather, not
> 976, as I remember (though my memory is not what it was). 976 first
> came into use in the late 1970s for phone sex -- excuse me, value-added
> information services.
True.
In Boston, at least, the Weather has been 617-936-xxxx (where xxxx can be replaced wth any four digits) since at least the mid-1980s (and probably much earlier) through the present. The Time number here is
617-637-xxxx (can be reached as 617-NERVOUS).