Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: The Term "Touchtone" -- No Longer Protected? Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 89 19:25:20 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: John Cowan Organization: ESCC New York City Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 199, message 7 of 8 In article mit-amt!rdsnyder%mit-amt. media.mit.edu@eecs.nwu.edu (Ross D. Snyder) writes: >The story is different for the Bell System symbol. (There's a good article >in a 1971 issue of Telephony magazine on the design of the Bell System >symbol and the color scheme of Bell System vehicles.) The Bell System >symbol was given to the RBOCs and Bellcore. AT&T had to come up with its >new non-concentric circle-within-a-circle-all-made-of-horizontal-lines >symbol. The current AT&T logo was originally the ABI (American Bell, Inc.) logo. ABI was the "non-regulated subsidiary" that the old AT&T set up to market computers and such things around 1982. After divestiture, AT&T as a whole adopted this new logo. American Bell as such no longer exists, although there are still AT&T machines whose uucp-name is ab*, like abflx, that were once ABI machines. Media watchers may remember ABI as "Baby Bell". -- John Cowan or UUCP mailers: ...!uunet!hombre!{marob,magpie}!cowan Fidonet (last resort): 1:107/711 Aiya elenion ancalima!