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From: gabe@sirius.ctr.columbia.edu (Gabe Wiener)
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Subject: What is Autovon?
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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