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Bell System Technical Journal, 1922-1983

Alcatel-Lucent has made available the entire Bell System Technical Journal from 1922-1983 available on the Web in PDF format sorted by year, volume and issue. Its searchable as well.

It is a wealth of consolidated information about the activities of the labs in those years.

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[teddyb.livejournal.com]

Wow!

Most of the articles are way beyond my technical grasp, but I'm looking forward to digging into some of the stuff on automated switching and area code numbering and allocation and the underpinnings of the Picturephone service that never really took off and in-band and out-of-band signaling and that sort of stuff.

My inner geek so wanted to buy the second generation Picturephone set that was recently offered on eBay, but the $2,000 asking price was too rich for me. I think it eventually sold for something around $1,600, which I think is pretty pricey, even for a piece of history.

[maskwa.livejournal.com]

I'm getting 503 errors but when it stabilizes, I am sure I will be picking through all the documents. I'm such a nerd.

[ursusarctos.livejournal.com]

So THAT was the disturbance in the force I felt. Or maybe it was the sriracha from breakfast. :D
I know you'll be having a ball tracking down the sources of unexplained weirdness in telecom protocall.

[sunbeam-bears.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I bookmarked the site for later. A friend's mom worked at Bell Labs in the late 50's- 60's. They stuff they worked on then that she told us about was amazing stuff. Such as voice dialing that was started then, and tested in the 80's in MA. I had voice dialing back then, worked pretty well.