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

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Back in the days...
From: "A.H.SCHMIDT" <horsts@primus.com.au>
Date: Sat, 11 Nov 2000 00:19:12 +1100
References: <B6314BD4.9285%howard.390@osu.edu>

Martin Howard wrote:

> 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. ;)
>

Martin, you've got a point there. It was supposed to be in hours.

Regards, Horst schmidt

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