[11393] in North American Network Operators' Group
Earth-moving trivia (was "RE: "1997, the Year of the Backhoe"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henry Steuart)
Tue Jul 29 15:20:20 1997
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 1997 13:46:30 -0500
To: Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net>
From: Henry Steuart <jhs@ueno.egenius.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707291619.JAA25310@zocalo.net>
At 09:19 AM 7/29/97 -0700, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> Peter Galbavy writes:
> > Thanks for that folks.
> > I now know that "backhoe" == "JCB". :)
>
> So please indulge those of us unfamiliar with the finer points of
> British outside-plant cable-management... What does "JCB" stand for?
>
> -Bill
>
In case the UK has got bored and gone home....
Literally "Joseph Charles Bamford", who's company, nestled in the Staffordshire countryside near a place called Rocester ("Rowster" for those unfamiliar with the vaguaries of English pronunciation!), produces swarms of bright yellow "diggers" for use the world over.
(FYI - they have been sighted this side of "the pond" in both Virginia and Missouri!)
-H-
