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Bell Telephone Company. Fact or Fiction?

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Is the Bell Telephone Company (mentioned in LFB) an actual company or is it some that Mr Donaldson made up? Any information would be welcome.
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Yeah, it used to be. Now it's AT&T (or something like that). It was named after Ma Bell.
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Bell Telephone used to be your only choice.....nationwide. That was a long, long time ago! I remember it well. :faint:
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Farm Ur-Ted wrote:Yeah, it used to be. Now it's AT&T (or something like that). It was named after Ma Bell.
Ma Bell was the name refered to by the people in the US to AT&T back in the 30' thru 60's before they were broken up by the US government. Now it seem Ma Bell has reformed.
Believe it or not, before the breakup, Ma Bell(AT&T) was cheap in comparision to todays prices. Even by inflation indexing.
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Thanks for that.Greatly appreciated.
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Greetings...

I don't think that Ma Bell was actually AT&T, was it?

I know that Bell Telephone used to be the *only* telephone company, but I thought AT&T was first created for long distance.

I *do* know that AT&T *became* the new (and not-so-improved) "Ma Bell" after all the Baby Bells were created (because of the Bell Breakup).

[geesh - I'm so glad I wasn't trying to novelize that; that paragraph was totally ugly]

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there's this really cool search engin called google and this evolving encyclopedia thingy called wikipedia,
anyway,
here's all about Bell Telephone

(Ma Bell being the "mother" company. get it. Ma Bell)

Everything you always wanted to know about bell telephone but were afraid to ask



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We still get our local service from Bellsouth, one of the baby Bells. Although I guess they have merged back into ATT.

And there used to be Bell Laboratories, too, home of exciting research and even Nobel Laureates (at least one, that I know of).
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Bell labs invented Unix.
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Emotional Leper wrote:Bell labs invented Unix.
Not the sole version. I believe the University of Berkley also invented a version of Unix.

Berkley Unix and then there was System 5 (Bell version)

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I want to know if it is fact or fiction that the lady in the Bell office was hot.
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Ur Dead wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote:Bell labs invented Unix.
Not the sole version. I believe the University of Berkley also invented a version of Unix.

Berkley Unix and then there was System 5 (Bell version)

Mind is failing me because it was so long ago.
Unix was developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.

They also invented the C Programming language, to port Unix.
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Emotional Leper wrote:
Ur Dead wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote:Bell labs invented Unix.
Not the sole version. I believe the University of Berkley also invented a version of Unix.

Berkley Unix and then there was System 5 (Bell version)

Mind is failing me because it was so long ago.
Unix was developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.

They also invented the C Programming language, to port Unix.
Big deal! I invented the internet, so there.
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Farm Ur-Ted wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote:
Ur Dead wrote: Not the sole version. I believe the University of Berkley also invented a version of Unix.

Berkley Unix and then there was System 5 (Bell version)

Mind is failing me because it was so long ago.
Unix was developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.

They also invented the C Programming language, to port Unix.
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Emotional Leper wrote: Unix was developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.

They also invented the C Programming language, to port Unix.
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Lina Heartlistener wrote:
Emotional Leper wrote: Unix was developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy.

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Lucimay wrote: (Ma Bell being the "mother" company. get it. Ma Bell)

Everything you always wanted to know about bell telephone but were afraid to ask
It was nicknamed Ma Bell before the breakup. Thats why the spin off companies were called Baby Bells. Bell though wasn't the the only phone company. Where I lived growing up, we had GTE for the phone company. It was about the same as a running a line of string between a couple of cans.
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I remember GTE.
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Cagliostro wrote:I want to know if it is fact or fiction that the lady in the Bell office was hot.
There was probably a lady in a Bell office somewhere that was hot. ;)

On the other hand, there were some that were old biddies. :P
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It was the hot guy who came to install your phone that really mattered! ;)
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