Mike Raiford wrote:
> Some time ago I was reading a Wikipedia entry about some of the relays 
> in a central office. Someone described the sound as deafening back when 
> everything was electromechanical. Especially on heavy phone traffic days.

I remember talking to someone who worked in a CO when Kennedy was shot. He 
said they thought something was wrong because everything went really quiet 
for about 20 minutes, and then it went completely nuts, beyond the capacity 
of the system to switch.

Altho this might have been with a #5 crossbar. I'm not sure the relays were 
around at the time.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
    Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
    you literally shooting yourself in the foot.

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