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		riffic on Jan 23, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bell Labs Org Chart (1980) Bell, at the time, had a lot of non-computer pursuits like switches and microwave antennas. Engineering was a lot more than writing code back then.

jbay808 on Jan 23, 2022 | [–]

> Engineering was a lot more than writing code back then.

(It still is!)

lordleft on Jan 23, 2022 | [–]

I work at AT&T Labs, one of Bell's heritor institutions, and we still do work that intersects with switches & telephony hardware

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