gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener) (10/15/89)
Someone recently mentioned to me that the military has an exclusive telephone system called "Autovon." He said that the term "Autovon" referred to that system the way we might use the word "Bell" to refer to the civilian system (or at least the way we would have used the word Bell 10 years ago!). Can anyone give us a little background on this system? History? Operation? etc.... Thanks! Gabe Wiener - Columbia Univ. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings gabe@ctr.columbia.edu to be seriously considered as a means of gmw1@cunixd.cc.columbia.edu communication. The device is inherently of 72355.1226@compuserve.com no value to us." -Western Union memo, 1877