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Re: Northern Telecom in RTP has become "NORTEL"? ? ?

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From: Jeffrey Victor Butera
Date: Thu, 04 May 1995 00:00
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Payton.Chung@launchpad.unc.edu (Payton Chung) writes:
>Yup, Nortel is the new name. Nortel pulled off a rather large ad in the 
>Wall Street Journal recently to announce the name change (as did McGraw 
>Hill, but their name change was less significant: from Inc. to Cos.)

Not so.  The *NAME* of the company is still Northern Telecom.
The *LOGO* was changed from NT to NORTEL (with the funky O) -
big difference.
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From: jvbutera@eos.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Victor Butera)
Subject: Re: Northern Telecom in RTP has become "NORTEL"? ? ?
Date: 1995/05/04
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