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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (71)	10/19/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: Beltropolis Boy	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

you're very welcome, gentlemen and thanks for the prompt replies. i appreciate your specific feeback, frank, and should the Gilder board, et al. respond, do let us know, ray. as an aside to frank, Loring Wirbel is a chief writer for Electronic Engineering Times. Wirbel's background is 'only' journalism (B.A. out of 'zona) -- he cut his teeth as the science and technology writer for the Albuquerque Tribune -- and the man definitely does his homework. (ray and i? "We're bell boys.") if you're inclined, you can reach him at <lwirbel@eet.cmp.com> man, just when i was getting spooked on a (near) future of all-optical switching, he comes out with a glowing, monday morning piece on "network processors" and programmable architectures (including a few bits on optical-packet processing). what else does he do on the weekends, ray? here's a link if you're interested; i'm going to post the entire piece on the VTSS board. enjoy, -chris. ----- Electronic Engineering Times October 18, 1999, Issue: 1083 Section: Communications -- Focus: What Is A Network Processor? Processor architectures aim at different tasks Loring Wirbel techweb.com

To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (71)	10/23/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1782

This comes to us courtesy of Albert LaFrance, from the Compuserve Telecomm Forum. Albert is a microwave tower historian, of sorts, a fact that you could probably detect on your own by reading his words. Enjoy. ---------- On eBay I got a 1947 advertisement for AT&T's first microwave link, giving a nice view of a station and its delay-lens antennas. The image is posted at: homestead.com I've reduced the size slightly to speed uploading. If you want a full-size, higher-resolution image, let me know and I'll e-mail it to you. It'll be a big file, probably more than 500K. Note the large window on the building, suggesting that it was a manned facility. I believe the other microwave stations of that era (WU and U.S. Army) were continuously attended. Also, note the size of the antennas, as indicated by the man working on one. It would be fun to visit the locations of those seven stations. I'd guess that the sites are the present locations of newer AT&T towers, but perhaps some traces of the old structures remain. ...Albert