Absolutely. There are private collectors with
operational CO's. These are
serious deep-pockets people who are buying surplussed microwave relay stations
and putting museums into them. There are two I know of in San Jose and the
central valley in private hands.
The telephony collectors have many decades of head start on us computer types.
The problem is that 99 1/2 of 100 of the telephone guys are only
interested in the last mile.
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Will