On Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:39:12 -0700 Derek Peschel
<dpeschel_at_eskimo.com> wrote:
> 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
Also:
http://www.light-straw.co.uk/
for a UK equivalent. The name "Light Straw" is the colour
of the paint used on old Post Office telephone racks, a bit
like beige only more yellow.
--
John Honniball
Email: John.Honniball_at_uwe.ac.uk
University of the West of England
Received on Mon Jul 30 2001 - 09:33:44 BST