I worked at Bell Labs from mid-1980 until 1990 as a contractor - termed "Resident Visitor" in the org chart. I don't recall our department title but we were at

I worked at Bell Labs from mid-1980 until 1990 as a contractor - termed "Resident Visitor" in the org chart. I don't recall our department title but we were at the Indian Hill facility near Naperville IL and worked on the 3B-20D reliable processor and operating system that was supposed to be the core of switching systems. I remember a lot more women in our department in both tech and management roles than the department in the directory. The Research Department in Murray Hill NJ would be the interesting org chart with all the big names of Unix legend. The offices for individual contributors were two persons sharing with kind of T-shaped desk arrangement that made playing backgammon at lunchtime very convenient.