TOPES: Telephone Office Planning and Engineering System, from Bell Labs, 1978 

I've never felt more thankful for Autocad, the internet and mobile phones.

I never knew Joe Piscopo worked at Bell Labs!! lol

They need to bring back Topes Notes it looks legit

Does any of the original code still exist?

I'm upgrading to TOPES!

I like how Sam just says bye and hangs up on Bill

Dimension 2000 & Merlin Key System, my favorites

awesome!!!

Viseo over WebEx. Nice! ;-)

Blimey I feel old ! And I was on 5ESS ! ;)

5:50 '..he also plays Joe Piscopo at parties'

Does any of this FORTRAN code still exist? This program looks like something that would have been run on a large DEC PDP-11 and probably later moved to a VAX.

Hmmmm. The annotation says it's from 1983. What's the story Bell System, A.K.A. AT&T?

Joe Piscapo at 5:46 !

At 5:54 the operator looks just like Joe Piscopo.

What year no mention in the description.

I am endeavoring to construct a mnemonic memory circuit using stone knives and bearskins.

Automation in 1983!!!

The systems used then probably worked better than the flashy junk we have now...

Television was really cool back then. Now we watch the Kardashians. I would watch this show about TOPES on a Saturday night with the kids. I think they would enjoy it as well. I would like to buy a TOPES to use it to arrange my living room furniture and possibly the tables in the garage.

Isn't the voiceover done by the same person who did The Twilight Zone (Rod Serling)?

Who needs a damn mouse just use the X,Y Scroll wheels

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Fred Mudson quit his bell labs gig to become a comedian and join SNL. He’s happier now.