IP: Say Goodbye to AT&T

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 19:14:14 -0400
> To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
> From: Monty Solomon <monty () roscom com>
> Subject: Say Goodbye to AT&T
>
>
> AT&T
> Say Goodbye to AT&T
>
> It's not your mother's phone company anymore. Someday soon, it may
> not be anybody's.
>
> FORTUNE
> Monday, October 1, 2001
> By Stephanie N. Mehta
>
>
> In a nondescript one-story building off Interstate 78 in New Jersey
> lies the largest known stash of corporate memorabilia in America. The
> eyes take a while to drink in what they're seeing, because at first
> the cubicles and low-pile carpeting bring to mind a suburban
> insurance agency, not the official archives of AT&T. But then the
> antique telephone-operator "cord board" comes into view, and the
> vintage telephones encased in glass, and the temperature-controlled
> bank vault where yellowing maps of the world's first long-distance
> network are stored. With luck, the resident historian will don white
> gloves and unwrap the notebook in which the man who received the most
> famous phone call in history jotted Alexander Graham Bell's words:
> "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." No question, the archive is an
> amazing treasure trove. But like the great storeroom of Xanadu in
> Citizen Kane, it also holds clues to the death of the entity that
> created it.
>
> http://www.fortune.com/indexw.jhtml?channel=artcol.jhtml&doc_id=204241



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