[GreenKeys] Methinks I am wasting my time... or am I ?

hunybuny at eskimo.com hunybuny at eskimo.com
Fri Jan 2 10:32:33 EST 2009


Bryan Brodie wrote:
> Don,
> 
> I remember taking a field trip to a Bell
> System switching center when I was in 5th grade. I was amazed. The
> engineer giving the tour directed our attention to a pair of relays
> which had just connected: "this is someone's phone call, happening
> right now...". Then he briefly pried apart the copper contacts and the
> relays returned to the resting point. "that phone call was just
> disconnected." 

Well - that engineer is still working at bell systems, and
still giving those tours of the switching center.

And still prying apart those relays - except now he waits until
I'm 3/4 of the way done downloading a file...   :-)

UE,
W6ESE - tony
NNNNZCZC

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