Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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