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DIRECTORY-ASSISTANCE OPERATOR

Specialty Definition: DIRECTORY-ASSISTANCE OPERATOR

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Occupations

Provides telephone information from cord or cordless central office switchboard: Plugs in headphones when signal light flashes on cord switchboard, or pushes switch keys on cordless switchboard to make connections. Refers to alphabetical or geographical reels or directories to answer questions and suggests alternate locations and spelling under which number could be listed. May type location and spelling of name on computer terminal keyboard, and scan directory or microfilm viewer to locate number. May keep record of calls received. May keep reels and directories up to date. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: DIRECTORY-ASSISTANCE OPERATOR


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

44 49 52 45 43 54 4F 52 59 2D 41 53 53 49 53 54 41 4E 43 45      4F 50 45 52 41 54 4F 52

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000100 01001001 01010010 01000101 01000011 01010100 01001111 01010010 01011001 00101101 01000001 01010011 01010011 01001001 01010011 01010100 01000001 01001110 01000011 01000101 00100000 01001111 01010000 01000101 01010010 01000001 01010100 01001111 01010010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#68 &#73 &#82 &#69 &#67 &#84 &#79 &#82 &#89 &#45 &#65 &#83 &#83 &#73 &#83 &#84 &#65 &#78 &#67 &#69 &#32 &#79 &#80 &#69 &#82 &#65 &#84 &#79 &#82

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0044 0049 0052 0045 0043 0054 004F 0052 0059 002D 0041 0053 0053 0049 0053 0054 0041 004E 0043 0045      004F 0050 0045 0052 0041 0054 004F 0052

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

384352393754495259153553534353543548373924950395235544952

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INDEX

1. Orthography
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