Old-fashioned voice-activated dialing

I started life out with a 4 digit phone number.
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We used to have voice-activated dialing. I'd pick up the receiver. The Operator would say, "Number, plee-yayse." I'd recite my buddy Tom's number, "2, 4, 6." Perfect number for a small child's memory!

After Operators knew your name, but before dialing.