"1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In Sterling VA.

Tue Jul 29 16:15:22 UTC 1997

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:
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> Meet your enemy:
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> http://www.cat.com/products/equip/bhl/bhl.htm
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> Charles
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> On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Peter Galbavy wrote:
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> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 16:16:45 +0100
> > From: Peter Galbavy <peter at demon.net>
> > To: 'Steve Goldstein' <sgoldste at nsf.gov>,
> >     Henry Clark <henryc at bbnplanet.com>, nanog at 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 at 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
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