[11378] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe" ...Re: Fiber Cut In Sterling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (BrandonButterworth)
Tue Jul 29 12:19:39 1997
From: brandon@rd.bbc.co.uk (BrandonButterworth)
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 97 16:47:03 BST
To: peter@demon.net, henryc@bbnplanet.com, nanog@merit.edu, sgoldste@nsf.gov
> >For those of us who have not grown up with the (what sounds like)
> >delightful vagaries of US road management - what is a backhoe ?
> >
>
> Simple answer: a mechanical shovel.
>
> More precisely: a relatively small-size ...
More precisely for the UK: a JCB
Brandon
