Off-topic informational anti-spam anecdotal

From: Bill/Carolyn Pechter <pechter_at_shell.monmouth.com>
Date: Wed Jul 29 05:23:50 1998

>
> Doug Spence wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> >
> > > > Uhhh... I still use a rotary dial telephone, with extremely loud clanger.
> > > > Not in my room, but the household's main phone is one 'o those. It's the
> > > > only 'public' one in the house, all the other ones sit in someone's
> > > > bedroom.
> > >
> > > One thing that can be said for those ancient Western Electric clunkers
> > ^^^^^^^
> > Mine's a Northern Electric clunker. :)
>
> I guess Northern Electric might could have been the marketing arm in
> the GWN for WE kit -- Western Electric was the major manufacturing
> division of AT&T back in the bad old monopoly days -- though people
> moved back and forth between WE and Teletype and Ma Bell with little
> difficulty, just pick up the folder at Personnel and go. Bell Labs
> invented things, Western Electric or Teletype built them, AT&T
> corporate sold the stock and the services.
> >

I believe Northern Electric was the Bell Canada Western Electric and
the Canadian Bell Labs (just like you said). I think it became Nortel...

Bill
Received on Wed Jul 29 1998 - 05:23:50 BST