For a long time, California was viewed as hostile to phone companies, or at least AT&T, and I remember clearly people saying that Bell Labs would never have a location in CA as a result.

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"Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>

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"Doug McIlroy" <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu>
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Re: [TUHS] Bell Labs data center in 1969/70

Maybe it was the bizarro Bell Labs whose existence meant we couldn't have the domain belllabs.com.

-rob

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:26 AM Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
Strangely I have no recollection of a Bell Labs branch further
west than Denver. What did they do in Oakland?

Doug