General Telephone & Electronics ad, 1960

Bell Labs was doing some freaky basic research back in the day.

As a former subsidiary of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), Bell Labs and its researchers have been credited with the development of radio astronomy, the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, the charge-coupled device (CCD), information theory, the Unix operating system, and the programming languages B, C, C++, S, SNOBOL, AWK, AMPL, and others, throughout the 20th century. Eleven Nobel Prizes and five Turing Awards have been awarded for work completed at Bell Laboratories.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Labs

Man, they kinda phoned it in on this one.

It’s in fascinating thinking of all the manual work that went into crafting and drafting an ad like this.