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[–] akacastor 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Where is this? What is this?

Beautiful desk and equipment!

[–] toni_bmw 38 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Barcelona, Spain. The building is owned by a telephony operating company. I understand that this is an old control to manually switch phone calls

[–] RampantParanoia2365 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh, hey, I'm going there in October! What's the building called?

[–] toni_bmw 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It is a Telefonica building located in Plaza Artós. I do not know what they will do with this beauty, since these days they are working emptying the entire plant that was occupied with copper installation. These weeks in Spain are finalizing the definitive elimination of copper lines, in favor of optic fiber

[–] RampantParanoia2365 4 points 8 months ago

Well I'll keep it in mind. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You seem like the type who might appreciate these photos.

http://blog.presentandcorrect.com/27986-2

[–] akacastor 3 points 8 months ago

Fantastic! As soon as I saw the first photo I thought "what a wonderful play room!" and also I want to play in all the rest too. :)

[–] niktemadur 16 points 8 months ago

From the old office days where men were men... and women were computers.

Literally. Pushing pencil on paper, doing calculations all day, was the most common office position for women back then, and the job title was Computer.

[–] Questy 11 points 8 months ago

Oh cool, you work by the Path of Elixe launch servers.

[–] slazer2au 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just going to leave us hanging as to what this plug board is?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Good pun. (It's for telephones)

[–] Anticorp 6 points 8 months ago

What is them?

[–] Mechanite 4 points 8 months ago

Thought the switches were chess boards for a moment and was really confused what kind of insane apparatus was built for them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I feel like I can smell this picture.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

the smell of wood.