<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">hi, old friends (and i mean that both figuratively and literally)<div><br></div><div>the recent/continuing brouhaha involving lead sheathed cables made me wonder about<div>nassau smelting and refining in staten island (a sub of WEco which ended up with Lucent) </div><div>(and apparently another location at W. 29th st which was a superfund site for a while.)</div><div><br></div><div>wonderful chaplainesque photo:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.facebook.com/classicstatenisland/photos/a.286586221935407/516688818925145/?type=3">https://www.facebook.com/classicstatenisland/photos/a.286586221935407/516688818925145/?type=3</a></div><div><br></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.234px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">also regarding the Staten Island location, quoting from</span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.234px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;">https://www.silive.com/news/2020/02/former-nassau-smelting-site-sells-for-306m.html</div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.234px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div><span style="color: rgb(42, 42, 42); font-variant-ligatures: normal; letter-spacing: 0.234px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">"The cleanup was to entail covering 450,000 cubic yards of contaminated soil with a thick, unbreakable plastic liner, as well as layers of clean soil.”</span></div><div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.234px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;"><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="caret-color: rgb(42, 42, 42); letter-spacing: 0.234px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(hah, what could go wrong with that?)</span></font></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 11, 2023, at 11:34 AM, Paul Winalski <paul.winalski@gmail.com> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Regarding the possible Western Electric -> Lucent -> Nokia IP path,<br>has anyone tried contacting Nokia's legal department and asking<br>whether they think they own the rights to the 3B/WECo computer IP, and<br>if not, do they know who does (or might) own it?<br><br>-Paul W.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>