Tag: AT&T
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Prodigal Sears
In a prominent location facing out from an end cap sat a TI-99 display at Sears. My brother and I always got sucked into its gravitational pull. We’d play games then badger whichever parental unit was with us to purchase said game. The mall was a decent distance from our house and we didn’t go…
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My Aunty Bell
As I said before, my dad worked for Western Electric at Montgomery Works. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T until the divestiture in 1984. His location manufactured telephone parts and data transmission equipment. He tested equipment during his tenure there. I remember visiting him at the plant once during a strike. I…
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Sturdy construction and great conversational sound quality
As I mentioned in my prior post, my dad worked at Western Electric in Montgomery Works back in the day. Before the great divestiture of Ma Bell, Western Electric was a wholly-owned subsidiary of AT&T. It was a long-lived electrical engineering and manufacturing company founded in 1869. While Montgomery Works evolved to focus on data…
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Radio Shack …
As I’ve dug around in my memory banks, one thing eluded me. I didn’t remember where my dad bought his tech supplies from. I remember the Computer Shopper catalog. I remember playing games on the TI display at Sears at the mall which was about a 30 minutes drive from our house. I…
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