27 Jul
2001
27 Jul
'01
2:39 p.m.
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).