On 2020-05-27 09:20 PM, Russell Reiter wrote:
Funny thing, I have been working with telecom, computers and networks
for decades, but have never, not once, seen FDDI implemented anywhere.
I don't necessarily think that's a funny thing, you don't typically
get the pedigree of every network your data traverses, unless you
actually search for it.
I have worked hands on with a variety of systems and networks. I have
worked on telcom, cell networks, office LANs, cell networks, Rogers
networks, in central offices, factories warehouses and more. I have seen
a lot.
Toronto is a pretty late adopter of LRT tech, so in that sense, others
have done our structural groundwork for us. I rode my first
articulated urban LRT vehicle in Europe in 1967. The pilot LRT project
for Toronto didn't materialize til 2001. Sure we had a couple of bendy
buses but surface LRT was not on the Toronto transit radar at all; not
for all those decades.
LRT used to be called "streetcars". Toronto has had them for well over
a century.
Wasn't that Air Canada system linked to the US carriers through SABRE
Inc's frame relay system which allowed consumers to be able to access
a computerized booking system using DTMF tones.
They connected to Sabre and eventually moved to it. However, I had no
experience with it. The system at Front St. was based on a UNIVAC
system and I worked on the communications front end, which ran on
Collins computers.
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