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To: John Inine who wrote (2517)	10/19/1999 7:20:00 PM
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OT: Tuesday evening historical sidetrip. A link to several short accounts of Armstrong's work: members.home.net (Excerpt) By the end of World War II, FM had been proven. Much to the disgust of RCA's David Sarnoff. "I thought Armstrong would invent some kind of a filter to remove static from our AM radio. I didn't think he'd start a revolution, start up a whole damn new industry to compete with RCA." Furthermore, FM was a distraction. Sarnoff wanted RCA to put its resources into the development of television, which was taking up huge chunks of RCA's working capital. "A new kind of radio," said Sarnoff, "is like a new kind of mouse trap. The world doesn't need another mousetrap." And with some cool early pictures, including "the world's first portable radio" (must have taken a small trailer to move it around <ggg>): world.std.com