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

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 >> >> >> >