Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Gabe Wiener Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Teletype Marked "Crypto" and Other Found Treasures Message-ID: <11020@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 17 Aug 90 02:56:25 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Columbia University Center for Telecommunications Research Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 579, Message 7 of 9 In article <10953@accuvax.nwu.edu> riddle@hoss.unl.edu (Michael H. Riddle) writes: >Your final question, W2VZM is an amateur call sign. I'll leave it for >the hams in the group to explain if there was anything special about >it. I checked the North American directory and there is no W2VZM currently issued. The license may have lapsed. I suppose that you could dig back to older Callbooks if you wanted to find out whose set it was. 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 A note from a reader sent to someone else (with a copy to me) noted that it was now a Silent Key. PAT]