People of Bell Labs in the 1960s

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by danboarder • 5 years ago

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teameat• 5 years ago

I worked for Bell Labs in the 70's (78 - 81) it was really cool and fun. I was a recent masters college grad and they moved me around the country working on a bunch of interesting special projects, from swapping out cord board systems, recording data on cross bar systems, taking interesting data on old IMTS (old wireless) to get data for HC-MTS (later became AMPS wireless, 1G for the uninitiated). It was super fun. But I was working on a special project in Seattle and simply fell in love with the area and requested a transfer to the local company and never left. But, thank you Bell Labs, I think some newer companies like Google try to replicate what was happening back then. But it was pretty special. I hope someone does, not sure Google or others have quite captured it. Anyhow, thanks for the fun pics.

danboarder• 5 years ago

Thanks for that story! So was AMPS or 1G the precursor to 2G/3G and 4G we know today on smartphone wireless systems?

People of Bell Labs in the 1960s

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