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

[Warner Losh]

Why ? Pranksters or is there some application that benefits from left hand
screwed light bulbs?

Warner

On Mon, Dec 11, 2023, 10:55 PM Ken Thompson <kenbob at gmail.com> wrote:

> there was a room with left-hand screw
> 100 watt light bulbs and sockets.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 6:36 PM Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS <
> tuhs at tuhs.org> wrote:
>
>> 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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