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
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Charles Sprickman Internet Channel
INCH System Administration Team (212)243-5200
spork@inch.com access@inch.com> 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.
>
> > ...
> > >
> > >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