People of Bell Labs in the 1960s(flashbak.com)

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People of Bell Labs in the 1960s

https://flashbak.com/people-of-bell-labs-in-the-1960s-399654/

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I worked for Bell Labs in the 70's (78 - 81) it was really cool and fun. I was a recent masters college grad and they moved me around the country working on a bunch of interesting special projects, from swapping out cord board systems, recording data on cross bar systems, taking interesting data on old IMTS (old wireless) to get data for HC-MTS (later became AMPS wireless, 1G for the uninitiated). It was super fun. But I was working on a special project in Seattle and simply fell in love with the area and requested a transfer to the local company and never left. But, thank you Bell Labs, I think some newer companies like Google try to replicate what was happening back then. But it was pretty special. I hope someone does, not sure Google or others have quite captured it. Anyhow, thanks for the fun pics.

danboarder5 anni fa

Thanks for that story! So was AMPS or 1G the precursor to 2G/3G and 4G we know today on smartphone wireless systems?