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. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Pike" To:"Doug McIlroy" Cc: Sent:Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:10:30 +1100 Subject: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 [1]. -rob On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:26 AM Doug McIlroy wrote: Strangely I have no recollection of a Bell Labs branch further west than Denver. What did they do in Oakland? Doug Links: ------ [1] http://belllabs.com [2] mailto:doug@cs.dartmouth.edu