ANdrew 8-8000

[Brian Vita]

Roger Kirk wrote:
> 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.
Typically how many actual "lines" did these stations have in the day?  
How many today? 

I've always been curious.  When you hear the host say "line 6, you're on 
the air", are there that many lines or are the first five the bus ofc, 
fax and modem lines?

Brian