ANdrew 8-8000

[Roger Kirk]

Kevin Vahey wrote:
> BZ gave 2 reasons for not going to 931. The main reason was callers
> from outside 617 would almost always get a circuit busy which would
> have played havoc with talk shows [snip]
>   
IIRC, the 931 exchange was designed to moderate "contest" & "talk" 
traffic by only allowing a small number of calls from each exchange/area 
code (don't remember which) giving a busy to the rest of the callers.  
It was to avoid clogging up tie lines from one exchange to another.