Classic phone equipment (was Re: Hackers: Computer Outlaws revisited)

From: Derek Peschel <dpeschel_at_eskimo.com>
Date: Fri Jul 27 14:39:12 2001

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:18:12PM -0400, R. D. Davis wrote:

> Its a shame that that AT&T insisted on scrapping all of those old bits
> of equipment; when I worked there back in the mid 1980s, in a
> department that did central office planning and was still working with
> that old switching equipment, I was told that I couldn't purchase, or
> otherwise obtain, any of it, that the company's policy was to scrap
> it. :-(

It does survive in a few places. See

http://www.scn.org/tech/telmuseum/index.html

for one such place (in Seattle).
Received on Fri Jul 27 2001 - 14:39:12 BST

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