> Now unless you can develop become colourblindness later in life its one
> thing that I am definately not, I did an apprenticeship with British
Telecom
> (the main telco in the UK) and went through extensive colour blindness
> testing during the selection process, you can't really have colour blind
> technicians joining colour coded cables.
Ah, but that's why we have management and engineer positions.
Speaking of this topic. Last year, the big honkin telco that I work for had
a major cable cut in a downtown part of a capital city. The moron with a
backhoe managed to dig up a 6000 pair air-core cable that was encased in
six inches of concrete. This particular cable dated back to 1963. All the
wires were paper-wrap with no color or number coding. Each one had to be
toned out with three technicians working together on each wire one at a
time.
Imagine for a second...
Splicing 12000 wires one wire at a time. Fortunately, they were wrapped
into groups, but still.... We flew in splicers and techs from all over the
country to fix that one.
AG
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