Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet.Submitted by TriggerTough t3_10kdpgl in newjersey
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My dad worked at Bell Labs in Whippany. I remember going there in the 80’s and seeing a lot of Apple II computers with all sorts of crazy custom boards and ribbon cables running everywhere. I recall a co-worker of his gave us a custom Apple II floppy controller with a toggle switch to change which ROMs were active, changing from something being 3.2 to 3.3 versions. More interestingly, I remember that my dad said Bell Labs frequently had employees who built technology that had no current application. He said they kept a lot of it locked away until the rest of the world caught up and had a use for it.
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