PHONE AND BBS LISTINGS PHONE.TXT 1997-02-24 last updated by Roedy Green What is it? *********** last posted on BIX as PHON9604.ZIP in IBM.PC/LISTINGS It replaces PHON9612.ZIP. Ideally, it is updated each month and posted in IBM.PC/LISTINGS in file PHONyymm.ZIP, where yymm is the date. Sometimes I can't find my Round Tuit though. Phone.Txt is a telephone directory in the form of an ASCII file. It lists about 5100 phone numbers of various computer-related companies. Voice, FAX and BBS numbers are included. http: web sites, mailto: email addresses and ftp: ftp file transfer protocol sites are also now included. It is also available interactively on the web at http://oberon.ark.com/~roedy. Items marked R.I.P are no longer valid. I have left them in the list to prevent people from adding them by mistake as new numbers. Items marked with ?? are questionable. If you can resolve those items as either correct or incorrect, especially please let me know. If you find errors, duplicates or omissions, please report them to via Internet: Roedy@Bix.com (the Byte Information Exchange). Or use snail mail: Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products POB 707 Quathiaski Cove Quadra Island, BC V0P 1N0 Canada (250) 285-2954 voice Additions and Corrections ************************* IF YOU SEND ME UPDATES, IT MAKES MY JOB MUCH EASIER IF YOU USE THE SAME FORMAT I DO: -------------------------------x--------------xx------------------------------------------------- Canadian Mind Products (604) 684-6529 tech support 1234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 01,31 company name e.g. Canadian Mind Products 32,01 space 33,14 telephone e.g. (604) 684-6529, with parentheses, space and dash! 47,02 two spaces 49,50 description e.g. tech support, FAX, Voice, BBS Please no alphabetic phone numbers. These choke some people's databases. They may be easier to remember but they are hard to dial since the letters on the phone are tiny, and some phones don't have letters at all. Here is the conversion: ABC -> 2 DEF -> 3 GHI -> 4 JKL -> 5 MNO -> 6 PRS -> 7 TUV -> 8 WXY -> 9 e.g. (800) WER-BTNA should appear as: (800) 937-2862 I have followed the convention of not keying the words "Inc", "Ltd" or "Corp" as part of company names, to make uniqueness more likely. Credits ******* Bruce Fagen and Dave Smith did most of the original work collecting them. I have incorporated Dave2's printer list and every phone number I have seen posted on BIX over the last two weeks. DSmith scanned my set of numbers on paper which really pumped up the volume to three times the previous size. One batch of updates came from Rick Lafay on BIX cleaned from the Computer Shopper. He later sent another batch of 60. Karen Kenworthy provided another batch all nicely formatted. Bernie Vos sent several batches. BarryP sent a dozen items. Tim McDonough sent a batch of thirty gleaned from Midnight Engineering Magazine. Mike Blaszczak sent in a huge batch. Steve Grant sent in some corrections. It turns out a number I had for Micronics was actually an "adult" number. I collected a set of numbers from the April 28 issue of PC Mag. These were sources for Windows 3.1 drivers. Evin Gamblin (Evang on BIX) send a batch of 230. The May batch was mainly the work of Evin Gamblin again. He send in about 75 updates. The July/August batch was mostly a large let of Microsoft tech support numbers from Bixen Denryan. I also had access to an OCR scanner for a night, so I scanned a bunch from Byte myself. The October 1992 version was largely the work of GBattis. Updates came from Byte online and from Chuck Kuhlman and Tourville. Most of the recent tech support updates came from PC Magazine July 1995. I now have an HP 3C Scanner and WordScan Plus. I hope to do more frequent updates. Warning ******* Note if a (415) California area code does not work, try (510). That area code was split up. Similarly try new California code (310) if code (408) or (213) does not work. Similarly area code (201) in New Jersey has split to (201) for the north, (908) for central, and (609) for the south. Similary (360) in Washington is being split off from (206). In BC, (250) is being split off (604).