You can see in wonderful colour, pictures of a typical back-hoe digging up T1s and voice lines to put in our Fiber. See the mystified back-hoe operators saying "Oooops..." as they cut through almost all of our copper... All this excitement can be found at: http://www.archive.org:80/networking/ Charles Sprickman wrote:
Meet your enemy:
http://www.cat.com/products/equip/bhl/bhl.htm
Charles
~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~ Charles Sprickman Internet Channel INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200 spork@inch.com access@inch.com
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Peter Galbavy wrote:
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:16:45 +0100 From: Peter Galbavy <peter@demon.net> To: 'Steve Goldstein' <sgoldste@nsf.gov>, Henry Clark <henryc@bbnplanet.com>, nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In Sterling VA.
On 25 July 1997 20:11, Steve Goldstein [SMTP:sgoldste@nsf.gov] wrote:
At 10:18 AM -0400 7/25/97, Henry Clark wrote: ...
backhoe season :-)
"1997, the Year of the Backhoe"
For those of us who have not grown up with the (what sounds like) delightful vagaries of US road management - what is a backhoe ?
Tim -- Snail: Tim Pozar / LNS / 1978 45th Ave / San Francisco CA 94116 / USA POTS: +1 415 665 3790 Radio: KC6GNJ / KAE6247 It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word. -- Andrew Jackson