[GH85Carrera]

When DSL was first getting rolled out in Oklahoma City, the owner of the company I worked for was good friends with a manager at SW Bell. They had an office and substation a few hundred feet from our building. SW Bell was willing to use us as guinea pigs to roll out DSL for the home and office.

The day of the install a line tech, and two managers showed up in my office. I showed the tech where the breakout panel was and left him at it. The managers got on separate phone lines and each was talking to a separate engineer in different cities. After 30 minutes one more supervisor showed up, and 30 minutes later another supervisor. So I had 4 men in my office, all talking on phones to other techs and managers, and the guy at the panel trying various things. Several hours later I heard on of the engineers on the speakerphone say something like, "let me try this" and presto, we had DSL.

They all gathered in our foyer and back slapped and congratulated themselves. Then tech that worked on the panel said, guys, in class a few days ago the big boss said we were to install 6 to 8 customers per day, all on our own. They all fell silent. One of the higher up managers said that they will have to get a lot of things figured out, and it will be a challenge.

That was all in the late 1980s or early 1990s. We were happy to have "super fast" DSL at the office.