Re: Those Who Have Come and Gone

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"Jim"  wrote in message
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On Friday, March 30, 2012 10:07:07 AM UTC-4, Unknown wrote:
> On Thursday, March 29, 2012 10:56:32 PM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:
> > I have been working on a modestly large network cabling job the last few
> > days.  Usually for the larger jobs I just buy the wire I am going to
> > need,
> > and for the smaller jobs I use the wire I have on the shelf.  Well,
> > things
> > haven't been that busy for network cable jobs, and I decided to go
> > through
> > the shelves and see what I had in partial boxes.  Turns out I had more
> > than
> > enough for the job.  I have Cat 5e cable from a range of years,
> > distributors, and manufacturers.  Some of them aren't even in business
> > anymore.  Seems in this business I have outlasted a lot of distributors.
> > I
> > think I'm going to go in the house and pour myself a cold one in my King
> > Alarm beer mug.  Now if I only had an Arius shot glass I'ld toast my
> > luck
> > and survival with a boiler maker.  LOL.
>
> It is amazing in 35+ years I have been doing  how many distributors and
> company's have come and gone at one time in Pittsburgh  we had over 50
> electrical supply houses and 6 alarm distributors we now have less than a
> dozen electrical and 2 alarm suppliers left and so many manufacturers
> either gone or bought out renamed can not even keep track of them

It's difficult to keep track of anymore. I still refer to many of them my
there "old" names. Like Sentrol, ITI, Ademco.

Some of those old names are going to come back now that UTC purchased GE
security