In message <5AFA5A2C102DAB4692ABC1E87E0780CA089B205E@OCCLUST02EVS1.ugd.att.com> , "Stewart, William C (Bill), RTSLS" writes:
Steve wrote:
water - 8" of it Scary stuff - was that at Murray Hill?
Yes, in Building 5. There was also a long length of thick coax down the hill to the main complex -- it wasn't easy to get nice, standard fiber in 1982 -- that was the original Murray Hill backbone. Yes, coax between widely-separated buildings -- great for ground loops.... That was the first link in what came to be known as the "wet backbone" -- wet because the cage in the basement containing the repeaters was occasionally flooded with fluids considerably nastier than water... (We won't even discuss the time an electrician accidentally cut through one of the legs of this (thick, yellow, coax) backbone, and decided to splice it with wire nuts and electrical tape. This was cira 1989.) --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb