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> In hindsight it's almost like a public/national research laboratory, that happened to be privately held. In more ways than one. Sandia National Laboratories
by dreamcompiler 2y ago
> In hindsight it's almost like a public/national research laboratory, that happened to be privately held.
In more ways than one. Sandia National Laboratories (mentioned in the article) is a national research laboratory, and since it was managed by AT&T from its inception in 1948 it was organized like Bell Labs. It's no longer managed by AT&T and its culture today feels a lot less like Bell Labs, but in the early days the employees called it "Bell Labs West." Sandia is the only national lab that has an AT&T origin story.