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

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 >>> >>> >>> >>