Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Back in the days...
From: Martin Howard <howard.390@osu.edu>
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 06:53:08 -0500

A.H.SCHMIDT jotted down the following:

> This reminds me, of the time I worked for ITT in Germany. At this time, we
> developed the first microprocessor operated telemetry system used in Germany
> (I believe in the world, but are not 100% sure)
> [...]
> The time was about 1978.
> [...]
> However the system was built, and as I understand, it still works to day
> (running 24 Hrs a day) without failure. Roughly 3 Million 197 thousand 4
> hundred years later.
> 

Amazing.  By my calendar, there's only been about 22 years since 1978.  If
you built it 3,197,400 years ago, I dare say you probably were the first to
use microprocessor operated telemetry. ;)


M.

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