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FINAL THOUGHTS FROM SYENNA
Key features:
• The Manager (always a man) protected himself from the workers (all men) within a corner office.
• Engineers wrote and drew everything in pencil on paper and then handed it into the typing pool (exclusively staffed by women).

• More senior engineers had a rotary-dial phone on their desk with actual analogue wires coming out of it; minions had to time-share such phones (at that time called ‘phones) on a ratio of about 6 people to a phone.
• Twice a day a lady (obviously) wheeled the tea trolley round the office. At that time, tea was far more fashionable than coffee.
• In the corner of the office was a mail basket that was filled and emptied twice daily.
• Internal mail was placed inside re-usable envelopes and ferried around the site on electric “milk floats”. The envelopes had spaces marked out for the code-names of about 30 addressees, so you had to cross out the previous name and insert the new one.
The list of things we didn’t have is very long but includes: