Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 19:32:06 GMT From: hohnopsamlid.invalid (Goran Larsson) Subject: Re: Mercedes smokes BWM/Saab/Volvo with better model names and bad movies
In article <zzSX6.25391$Vl2.1373925nopsam20.bellglobal.com>, J. Harvey <JM001.Harveynopsamatico.ca> wrote: > My gosh. "90000" for an emergency telephone number ? Yes, but it is 112 now (EU standard). > Cheap movie script follows.: Panic stricken girls runs to telephone booth. > Poor girl starts to dial the emergency telephone number (rotary dial). > "Wirrrr Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick" (9) Cold blooded > Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick Tick" (0) No. The old rotary phones used (probably still in use by some luddites) here in Sweden was numbered from 0 to 9, not the quaint 1 to 9 and then 0 as in the US. A zero sent only ONE tick, so 90000 was one ten tick group followed by four one tick groups, not that much different from the 911 used in the US. At the time 90000 was in use the 9xxxx series was used for all kinds of telco type of services, like the talking clock, directory assistance and so on. > 90000 is over the top. In the US it would have been, but not in Sweden. -- G–ran Larsson Senior Systems Analyst hoh AT approve DOT se
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