Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!ctrsol!samsung!rex!wuarchive!texbell!attctc!vector!telecom-gateway From: bmk@mvuxi.att.com (Bernard Mckeever) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: What Happened to the EOBS Book? Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 89 20:45:31 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: bmk@cbnews.ATT.COM (bernard.mckeever,54236,mv,3b045,508 960 6289) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories 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 518, message 10 of 11 The question was asked. > AT&T Bell Labs used to publish a book called Engineering and >Operations in the Bell System, known among Bell Labs employees as >"EOBS". Does anyone know if any revised copies were printed/published >after 1983? If so, does anyone know how to obtain this book? Thanks. The answer is, alas, NO. Only two issues were available, and both used very different formats. My favorite is still issue I. The Foreword to issue II states that because of divestiture ...etc this is the final edition. The following information may be of some help if you are looking for a copy. International Standard Book Number 0-932764-04-5 Library of Congress Catalog Number 83-72956 AT&T Customer Information Center Select Code 500-478 As mentioned in Issue II the book was intended for new members of the Bell Labs technical staff, but it also served as a general reference for a much wider audience.