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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum
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To: ftth who wrote (2513)4/14/2001 11:41:26 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (2) of 46821
 
Yes, your post is equally funny. And your statement about the vacuum cleaners couldn't be any more wrong. Vacuum hoses were commonplace, coiled up on at least one wall per switching room. The oddest thing about reading that relic was the fact that the offices I've been involved with were hardly ever swept, per se. Every AT&T Central Office I've ever been in had a central vacuum system throughout, with capped "suck holes" [hose inlets] on every wall. So-called "apparatus cleaners," who were one step below bottom technical staff, would routinely commence, every night around 7PM, to do a thorough cleaning of not only floors and furnishings but switching equipment frames, as well. The actual equipment had to be cleaned by technicians (called craftsmen, then). Throughout the day they would do spot cleaning in areas of high activity. Bell System plant management was always hyper-sensitive about dust and other airborne particles getting onto electro-mechanical relay contacts, is why.

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