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britta an hour ago

My late family member was a technical editor at Bell Labs, and I inherited a few of his papers, and his internal resume is truly boring in many places:

“From October 1970 through December 1970, served as a member of the Western Electric Committee on the Technical Data Design Classification Plan.”

“Worked on studies and publication specifications for an automated Maintenance Data System (MDS).”

He did work on some slightly more interesting things, like documentation for a cable-laying ship, and he was proud of helping with the monumental book project “A History of Engineering and Science in the Bell System”. But overall it was just a job for him, for several decades; he retired as soon as he could.