>>Also-is that thing basically a massive clip joint?

30 years ago the Districts were run as independent businesses.

The District Senior Managers got an all expenses paid 'business trip' to Florida paid for by Western Electric / AT&T

A few months later we got a few container loads of Western Electric / AT&T MDF turning up and an instruction manual how to install / convert .

Them clip ups were in the container.

In reply to a post by partial:

30 years ago the Districts were run as independent businesses.

In those days the customer fault and ordering systems were also completely separate, each district had its own instance of a system called CSS

CSS is still there in the background. It's proved too big and too important an archive to change.

In reply to a post by witchunt:

CSS is still there in the background. It's proved too big and too important an archive to change.

Good to know hopefully the current front end system is more user friendly as I'm not sure the younger generation would get on with a system without point and click (no criticism of the younger generation as front ends have moved on a lot).

Some of the workarounds they�ve used to get things working with CSS are quite impressive too!

Utilising the old trunk part of it for the FTTC routing, for instance.

It will be a good day when that monstrosity is recovered and stripped having been replaced by what could easily be a single 15.4mm diameter, 192 count fibre cable.

Interesting to see how things used to be - that monstrosity will hopefully soon join massive coaxial cables in the archives.

Off to the Tower for you. That's no way to talk about Cable Royalty.

Edited by deleted (Tue 30-Apr-19 21:39:30)