28 Jul
1998
28 Jul
'98
10:23 p.m.
Doug Spence wrote:
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
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
^^^^^^^
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.
> 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