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In article <p54vka$b5v$1...@dont-email.me>,
Dan Espen  <dan1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>J. Clarke <jclarke...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2018 16:18:56 -0000 (UTC), pechter@t61.(none) (William
>> Pechter) wrote:
>>
>>>In article <kq7a7d1sjsqnltmkm...@4ax.com>,
>>>J. Clarke  <jclarke...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>Bell Labs was killed in 1984.  It took a long time to die but that's
>>>>when the knife went in.  I like to believe that there is a special
>>>>Hell for all the lawyers involved in that action.
>>>
>>>Killed, nope.  It was suicide.
>>>
>>>The action was done over time by AT&T's own management.
>>
>> AT&T's management did not destroy Bell Labs.  It was destroyed by the
>> lawyers who forced the breakup of AT&T.
>
>Actually, the breakup was proposed by AT&T.
>They may or may not have lost the anti-trust suit.
>At the time, I thought not.
>Within the company, the story was that AT&T would be free to enter
>the computer maker market thereby becoming the next big thing.
>
>Ridiculous.
>
>-- 
>Dan Espen

In '84 they proposed that they outsource the Bell Labs data center operations
to DEC and were looking to merge.  I think the Vax envy led them
to try to sell computers commercially (3b20 simplex sold against VAX) and
later to the NCR takeover.

Neither were successful.  I wonder if that DEC merger that was rumored in '84
was part of the deal... but there was a lot of corporate secrecy after
the stuff fell apart.

Wife at Bell Labs claimed she saw a in-house newsletter about the DEC taking
over the operations and sysadmin around then.  She led me to believe that
the newsletter was supposedly removed from distribution posts at the 
labs and destroyed.

Bill
collected and destroyed.


Bill