26 May
2016
26 May
'16
9:45 p.m.
They took us on a private tour of the old Bell Labs (now it's Nokia, which bought Alcatel-Lucent) in Murray Hill NJ today. We spent a couple of hours there. Photos were not allowed. Among many highlights, we saw the room where they perfected (not "invented") the transistor and also the room where K&R (and Thompson) did C and Unix. Neat! They said VCFed could potentially have a demo for BL employees * in that very room * one of these days.