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

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(a)tuhs.org&gt; wrote: > The protons must have decayed by now. > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:25 PM ron minnich &lt;rminnich(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > >> is "PJW in magnets" still there, I wonder. >> >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 5:06 PM segaloco via TUHS &lt;tuhs(a)tuhs.org&gt; 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(a)gmail.com&gt; 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(a)fastmail.com&gt; 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 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>