I was expecting to help install some of the cabling.
Indeed, the cabling was already in place, as BT suddenly discovered when The Observer asked it to explain the charge.
So far, however, optical technology has been confined mostly to telecoms networks and some of the cabling in data centres.
I can't tell you how I hate having to endure the clutter and the cabling on my desk just to hear the computer's beeps and dings.
Having written the story the reporter would then connect the computer to a phone socket and phone using the cabling provided and ring the newspaper's newsdesk.
All the cabling is neatly tucked away within the frame's tubes giving it a neat appearance and one less place for mud and grime to collect.
Galcher Lustwerk is halfway through a profoundly satisfying deep house set, but a man with oscillating eyeballs, lying in repose, manages to yank out the cabling from the decks.
Or if you already have a local area network, or LAN, you can use PCsync with that, which is faster and more convenient than any of the cabling options.
"We took the cabling of modern technology and put it in overhead troughs so the office can be reconfigured at any time without tearing apart the workstation," Mr. Sherman said.
I'm installing the network (and the BT incoming cable) in 20mm flexible tubing so that the cabling can be upgraded at a later date (eg to fibre) if required.
By the mid-1980s, it was clear that the Natwest tower's office floors were too small and too close together for electronic workstations and all the cabling and air conditioning needed to serve them.
