DAMN! This is so true … My room was exactly the same (including the Atari 800!) and the author must have been in a near-by ‘hood’ because those prefixes look awfully familiar …
“Back in the day, phone prefixes mattered. Flat rate local calls meant the boards in your local zone were free — not phree, which was different. I had a list of them posted on my wall, for a while, but soon enough I never really needed it. I knew my zone. 992, 667; 665; 464 — they were my ‘hood.”