[GreenKeys] Bell Labs - True Innovation

[Larry DeSoto]

It's very different.  I was at Whippany when divestiture was taking place. 
Whippany was more development and a lot of military work; Safeguard. SOSUS 
and the like.  The other big labs in NJ were mostly commercial and pie in 
the sky labs.  Corporate used to send money to them in truckloads.  It was 
pretty good for what would now be called geeks.  Not only were the tools and 
equipment available, but you were expected to spend a good bit of your time 
just exploring avenues of interest.  If you wanted a couple pounds of 
platinum or gold or something that would explode, you might have to go up a 
couple levels of management but otherwise BTL would pretty much make 
whatever you wanted available.

I remember that at the time a lot of the people working at the other labs 
used to turn up their noses at those of us doing military work at Whippany - 
not everyone but a lot.  When the money started drying up around 83, the 
very same people were haunting the halls at Whippany looking for work from 
us.  It was really quite sad and a major loss to American scientific 
innovation.

Larry - WA5MLH



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From: "Peter Gottlieb" <nerd at verizon.net>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 7:33 PM
To: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] Bell Labs - True Innovation

> So, how much is Lucent like the old Bell Labs?  Did they just change the 
> name
> and it's pretty much the way it was or is it just a mere shadow of what it 
> was?
>
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