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From: graff@mlpvm2.iinus1.ibm.com (Michael Graff)
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Subject: Re: The "Bell" Logo
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Date: 29 Nov 90 19:21:01 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 858, Message 1 of 13


In issue 848, Douglas Scott Reuben writes:

>  As to Pac*Bell, well, they kept the word "Bell", but I guess the
>  like the highly original asterisk symbol a lot better! :-) (They
>  must have searched REALLY hard for that logo!  "Gee ... let's use
>  one of the buttons on the phone!")

You'll appreciate a COCOT I saw last night.  In a font that looked
pretty close to the one used by PACIFIC*BELL, it said WESTERN#BELL.  I
guess other companies will have to use one of the digits, or perhaps
they can use a word with DEF or TUV or OPER in it.  :-)

I had very little time to play with it, but at first glance it seemed
to be pretty reasonable for a COCOT.  Dialing 10288 did not get an
immediate intercept message.  The label explicitly stated that MCI was
the default carrier.

I'm not sure whether the name and logo for WESTERN#BELL was meant to
be deceptive, or if it was an inside joke.  Probably some of both.


Michael