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

[Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com>]

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they were regular in the ny subway to stop theft.
some companies in ny also got them for the same
reason. my guess is that bell labs (in ny) did and
brought them out to mh. someone rewired someones
desk lamp. i dont know how that worked out.


On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 9:58 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

> Why ? Pranksters or is there some application that benefits from left hand
> screwed light bulbs?
>
> Warner
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023, 10:55 PM Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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