Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!apple!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: ficc!peter@uunet.uu.net Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: When Sprint Was Part of the Railroad Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 89 02:06:50 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 15 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 255, message 9 of 10 Those poor early SPRINT customers. The line quality on railroad phone systems has to be heard to be believed. Large sections of bare fencing wire (yes, on real fences), crosstalk from code lines, etc... --- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "...helping make the world Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | a quote-free zone..." Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | -- hjm@cernvax.cern.ch [Moderator's Note: They were long past the barbed wire on the fence post days when Sprint started. It was because they greatly modernized their system and found themselves financially embarassed as a result that they decided to sell the excess capacity. But you are correct about the old railroad phone networks. They were the pits. PT]