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Bell, at the time, had a lot of non-computer pursuits like switches and microwave antennas. Engineering was a lot more than writing code back then.

• lordleft 5y ago
  I work at AT&T Labs, one of Bell's heritor institutions, and we still do work that intersects with switches & telephony hardware
• jbay808 5y ago
  > Engineering was a lot more than writing code back then. (It still is!)