[TUHS] Re: Sad news: Bell Labs leaving Murray Hill.

[Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com>]

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there was a room with left-hand screw
100 watt light bulbs and sockets.


On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 6:36 PM Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS <
tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:

> The protons must have decayed by now.
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:25 PM ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> is "PJW in magnets" still there, I wonder.
>>
>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 5:06 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org> wrote:
>>
>>> While my gut says not likely, I'm holding out hope that Nokia is keen on
>>> ensuring someone does a historical sweep of the premises before all is said
>>> and done.  You never know what might be sitting forgotten in a closet
>>> somewhere...a lot of history has gone down in those illustrious halls,
>>> formative moments in our quest for better technology for which a modern
>>> equivalent fails to come to mind.
>>>
>>> For me it's not just about innovations though, but a culture of
>>> curiosity, openness, and what feels like genuine interest in bettering the
>>> human condition that seeps from so much of the work accomplished by MH and
>>> other Bell Labs sites over the decades.  A video I watched recently about
>>> the breakup of the Bell System echoed what I see in countless recollections
>>> of Bell Labs alumni, a sense that their work was contributing to something
>>> greater for everyone, not just the bottom line of the telephone company.
>>> Hopefully the lessons Bell Labs has taught many an engineer, scientist, and
>>> businessperson over the years outlive these facilities by orders of
>>> magnitude, but in either case, sad to see the physical artifacts of such
>>> important times passing too into the sands of time.
>>>
>>> - Matt G.
>>> On Monday, December 11th, 2023 at 1:21 PM, ron minnich <
>>> rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> April 16, 2014, from the Unix room:
>>>
>>> "I'm about to turn this terminal off,
>>> the last one in the Unix Room. It's the
>>> same 400MHz Pentium II I've had since
>>> before <someone> left."
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 11:46 AM Marty McGowan, MIT Club of Princeton <
>>> martymcg@fastmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thus following the Holmdel facility into the Halls of Oblivion.
>>>>
>>>> my current location, just E of the NJ Tpke, now splits the distance
>>>> between them.
>>>>
>>>> I was in HO in the late '80s, at MH in the mid '90s, there to divide
>>>> the corporate directory.
>>>>
>>>> Anecdote on the latter: The "company to be named" - i.e. Lucent had to
>>>> shell out Hundreds of 1000s to Yet Another Garage Tronics in Silicon Valley
>>>> for rights to the name -- the internet was young enough that the Name
>>>> Search committee didn't have "Dot Com" in it's dictionary as yet.
>>>>
>>>> =*+[]* Marty McGowan +1 908 230-3739 <(908)%20230-3739>
>>>> VP of Membership, MIT Club of Princeton
>>>> <https://alumcommunity.mit.edu/topics/23427/memberships>
>>>> <https://alumcommunity.mit.edu/topics/23427/memberships>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Dec 9, 2023, at 15:37, John Floren via TUHS wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I can't believe they'd give up the building, it's a beautiful
>>>> structure. Maybe they'll use it for other groups.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> john
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>

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