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

[Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS]

The protons must have decayed by now.

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 8:25 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> is "PJW in magnets" still there, I wonder.
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 5:06 PM segaloco via TUHS <tuhs at tuhs.org> 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 at gmail.com> 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 at fastmail.com> 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
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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