[geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed twine lacing

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sandwich Maker <adh at an.bradford.ma.us>
>Date: 2007/01/28 Sun PM 07:10:38 CST
>To: geeks at sunhelp.org
>Subject: Re: [geeks] nerd reading for a Friday night ... old-skool waxed 
twine lacing

>" Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 22:25:25 -0600 (CST)
>" From: Lionel Peterson <lionel4287 at verizon.net>
>" 
>" 
>" I guess in hind sight they needed the approval for long distance to get 
into 
>" cellular phone market and offer bundled long distance, but it would take a 
>" whole lot for me to give up a legal monopoly (esp. with a federally 
mandated 
>" profit on every dollar spent!)...
>
>bell labs is/was their research arm, so by definition every dollar
>they spent was research expense right?  so they could go to the govt
>and say we've had research expenses, we need a rate increase and get
>it.  the sub rosa joke at att-bl was spend $1, save $1.10...  it was a
>very sweet place to work at back then.

Yep - Bellcore was nice, but it paled in comparison based on the stories I 
heard...

Lionel