Re: Those Who Have Come and Gone

[Jim <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

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 fe=
w=20
> > days.  Usually for the larger jobs I just buy the wire I am going to ne=
ed,=20
> > and for the smaller jobs I use the wire I have on the shelf.  Well, thi=
ngs=20
> > haven't been that busy for network cable jobs, and I decided to go thro=
ugh=20
> > the shelves and see what I had in partial boxes.  Turns out I had more =
than=20
> > enough for the job.  I have Cat 5e cable from a range of years,=20
> > distributors, and manufacturers.  Some of them aren't even in business=
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> > anymore.  Seems in this business I have outlasted a lot of distributors=
.  I=20
> > think I'm going to go in the house and pour myself a cold one in my Kin=
g=20
> > Alarm beer mug.  Now if I only had an Arius shot glass I'ld toast my lu=
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> > and survival with a boiler maker.  LOL.
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> It is amazing in 35+ years I have been doing  how many distributors and c=
ompany's have come and gone at one time in Pittsburgh  we had over 50 elect=
rical 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 t=
here "old" names. Like Sentrol, ITI, Ademco.=20