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DHTML - Mark J Cuccia wrote: It was *** TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY *** (1-Jan-2004) on 1-Jan-1984, that the Bell System *DID* "officially" die as a single unit. Other thing *HAVE* changed in the past twenty years ... What "was" Western Electric, the manufacturing and equipment arm of the (one) Bell Telephone System, with Bell Telephone Laboratories, was retained by AT&T in 1984. However, a little over ten years later, in the 1995/96 timeframe, AT&T spun-off its equipment and (Bell) Labs operations into Lucent, which itself has had its ups-and-downs over the past eight or so years. (BTW, AT&T did retain a "labs" unit for switched network operations, which was separated from "Bell Labs" shortly before spinning off what would be known as Lucent).You know, it's amazing -- I was born 5 months after divestiture but I have a strong respect for -- and amamazed by "The Bell System" [Yes, I know about the problems with the NIHsyndrome, and various other things -- I'm not sure I'd want to liveunder an iron fisted Bell System where I couldn't do my own wiring, sono flames, please]But speaking of the Bell System and Western Electric -- myGrandparents are preparing to move out of their Northern Californiahome and into what has been their vacation home (St. Ignace, MI -- abeautiful area, and from what I've been told one of the last places tocut over to direct dial service) ... when my mother and I visited themfor Christmas they were offering that they weren't moving for thetaking, I seized the opportuntiy for something they thought was odd --their phones. An old, WE rotary desk set (white 500-series) and a WErotary wall (white 554) phone. The same Western Electric "Bell SystemProperty - Not For Sale" phones that were installed when built thehouse 40 years ago and had used day in and day out. Down to the samehandset cords that had faithfully carried many hundreds of hours ofconversations -- the phones are at least twice as old as I am and isstill working flawlessly! (The wall phone was used likely hundreds oftimes a week -- my grandmother is a teacher and has lots of friends,family, and parents that she keeps in touch with).When the 554 came off the wall for the first time in I don't know howmany years, a pristine, stainless steel jack was exposed, down to theBell System logo embossed in the lower right corner ... I had to resistthe urge to take that along too.I remember back when my Grandparents had their 2nd line installed toaccess the Internet my grandfather (a recently retired Civil Engineer)reminisced about how it used to be so easy -- there was just one phonecompany and they were responsible for everything, including thephones. If something didn't work, they couldn't blame it on yourwiring -- they knew exactly whose responsibility it was to fix theproblem.He mentioned that when he was building their home he left one nightand the next day when he stopped by the house after his day job aPacific (Telegraph & Telephone Co? Bell? Telesis? ???) employee hadadded a notation to the effect of "What about the phones?" on theblueprints. He made the notations about jack locations on the prints,did some work on the house and left. A short time later, the jackswere installed in the locations that he noted by the localBOC. Service was ordered, and the phones installed ... and not onevisit from the BOC until they had this 2nd line added roughly 35 yearslater.I was away from my computer on the 1st, but still wanted to take thisopportunity to "Pay my respects" on the 20th anniversary of the deathof the Bell System.Lincoln[BTW - Anyone happen to know why, with the exception of the wall jackround jacks and boxes were used? I've always kind of wondered.]
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