For a long time, California was viewed as hostile to phone companies,
or at least AT&T, and I remember clearly people saying that Bell Labs
would never have a location in CA as a result.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Pike" <robpike(a)gmail.com>
To:"Doug McIlroy" <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu>
Cc:<tuhs@tuhs.org>
Sent:Thu, 14 Mar 2019 19:10:30 +1100
Subject:Re: [TUHS] Bell Labs data center in 1969/70
Maybe it was the bizarro Bell Labs whose existence meant we couldn't
have the domain
belllabs.com [1].
-rob
On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:26 AM Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu
[2]> wrote:
Strangely I have no recollection of a Bell Labs branch further
west than Denver. What did they do in Oakland?
Doug
Links:
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[1]
http://belllabs.com
[2] mailto:doug@cs.dartmouth.edu