Word: switchboard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last month IBM showed that it was determined to become a leader in developing the automated office by agreeing to acquire 15% of Rolm. That company's advanced PBX system, a type of computerized switchboard, can be used to direct the flow of voice and data traffic between work stations. The investment will enable the two firms to work out ways to link IBM computers with the Rolm...
...posters of Pope John Paul II. One large hand-scrawled message contains a plea for men's shoes of all sizes. Another, more ominously, lists the political trials that are currently in progress. Inside the vestibule, a Franciscan nun in a brown habit tends an old-fashioned telephone switchboard. Off to the side, a room is piled high with boxes containing toothpaste, soap, powdered milk and other items...
According to McClure, a woman called the Harvard switchboard at 2:40 a.m. yesterday morning and told the operator that a bomb placed in Kirkland House would explode...
Residents of Kirkland House were evacuated from their rooms after the Harvard switchboard received a bomb threat at about 3:00 a.m. today, Sgt. Peter O'Hare of the Harvard University Police said...
Some aspects of the Falklands' somnolent life have not changed. There is no television, though videocassette players are proliferating (the most popular movies: M*A*S*H and Julia). The telephones have crank handles and are operated by a sole switchboard. The brightly painted clapboard houses are heated with bricks of black peat stored in sheds near kitchen doors, and Land Rovers are the most popular means of transportation. The largest store is run by the Falkland Islands Co., which owns more than 43% of the land and employs 240 workers. Mutton, delivered to homes twice a week...