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Pictorial and Written History of Bell Systems

Posted by michael on from the ma-knows-what-you-want dept.

gngulrajani writes "I have wasted an afternoon digging though this website. Lots of old school Bell marketing posters as well as technical specifications for things such as 'Telephone Memory Devices' and a 'dataphone service'."

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  1. Judge Green and the MFJ by crumbz · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not to start a flame war, but I think divestiture was probably a good thing. Does anyone think we would have 1Mb pipes to our homes if we still had Ma Bell?

    1. Re:Judge Green and the MFJ by eggstasy · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Uh, let me think for a while... Yes! Of course. Most obviously.
      I dont know if you're aware that a lot of other countries still have these evil, gigantic phone monopolies. And we do have 1 Mbit internet acess :)

  2. Re:phone technology history is facinating by stephenisu · · Score: 2, Insightful

    the thing that gets me though, is considering todays available technology, why is the sound quality of phones still so bad?

    Cost is why.

    Instead of getting more hardware, they started using more compression. From a business standpoint it's a no brainer.

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