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Technology Stocks : The *NEW* Frank Coluccio Technology Forum

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To: ftth who started this subject10/23/2000 12:16:12 AM
From: Frank A. Coluccio  Read Replies (1) of 46821
 
A microwave system for telegraph service.

Telegraph. That's what they used to call what we now call data.

And "mc" stood for "megaycles per second," what we now call MegaHertz. Now that the primer is over...

This Western Union paper comes to us thanks to Albert La France on the Compuserve Communications Forum:

"A Microwave System for Telegraph Service"

by J. J. Lenehan, July 1954

lafrance.homestead.com (through -102.jpg which you must enter manually)

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