Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/04/09

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: People Even!
From: reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid)
Date: Mon Apr 9 13:41:33 2007
References: <l03130303c240492ce610@[129.89.124.227]>

Great pictures.

A couple of comments about the "Circuit Room 1975". Your description says 
"Telephone switching room"; in fact, that's a Frame room, and that man looks 
like a Frame Tech except that he doesn't have a punchdown tool on his belt, 
so maybe he's just posing. The switching room will be nearby, but this isn't 
it.

Also, color is so important to telephone wiring that you can't get a job as 
a telephone technician if you are color blind. I find myself looking at the 
black-and white wires and wondering which ones are blue/white, white/blue, 
violet/slate, black/brown, and so forth. Each one of those white gizmos 
(called a "66 block") has 50 wires in 25 pairs, and the wires are identified 
entirely by their color code.

Brian Reid
former wirehead



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