Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2013/01/19

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Subject: [Leica] Cold War Space Radars
From: hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter)
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:39:41 -0500
References: <67B24A6E-51E8-42C5-81D1-39BD87F0B007@acm.org> <DD27B927-1F94-4007-BECB-1FA60F7CA23D@bex.net> <CAE3QcF4s7To3bM3x4jOWtApgqFZMq4jMxExdbUVMtkRNRbEOMw@mail.gmail.com>

Ha! Right you are. It's a shortening of the term "defense condition".

?howard


On Jan 19, 2013, at 7:04 AM, Geoff Hopkinson <hopsternew at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very interesting Howard and Herbert.
> Now I also know that "DEFCON " was not just a word made up for movies and
> technothrillers.


In reply to: Message from kanner at acm.org (Herbert Kanner) ([Leica] Another in the Computer History Museum series)
Message from hlritter at bex.net (Howard Ritter) ([Leica] Cold War Space Radars)
Message from hopsternew at gmail.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Cold War Space Radars)