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

[ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>]

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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.
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> my current location, just E of the NJ Tpke, now splits the distance
> between them.
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> I was in HO in the late '80s, at MH in the mid '90s, there to divide the
> corporate directory.
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> 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.
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> =*+[]* Marty McGowan        +1 908 230-3739
> VP of Membership, MIT Club of Princeton
> <https://alumcommunity.mit.edu/topics/23427/memberships>
> <https://alumcommunity.mit.edu/topics/23427/memberships>
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> On Sat, Dec 9, 2023, at 15:37, John Floren via TUHS wrote:
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> I can't believe they'd give up the building, it's a beautiful structure.
> Maybe they'll use it for other groups.
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> john
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