Raised floors

[Dennis Boone]

 > Anyway, all of this doesn't further the raised floor discussion much,
 > except to say that things could be done without raised floors (and given
 > the way that computing evolved in the UK, if GPO convention was to wire
 > overhead then doubtless this was carried over into a lot of computer
 > installations; the US and other countries may have taken a much
 > different route though, with raised floors adopted much earlier)

 > (which raises an incidental question; were Strowger exchanges in non-UK
 > countries typically wired overhead or below-floor?)

A friend who has spent a lot of time working in US COs says:

    The only below-floor wiring I've *ever* seen in a CO was in the 7th
    floor computer room, which was managed by the company from whom Bell
    bought the computer. Everything else is overhead, always always
    always.

De