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Subject: Re: Armstrong and Ma Bell
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Date: 27 Feb 91 16:44:58 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 166, Message 10 of 12


Bits and pieces - maybe somebody will come through with the
authoritative story.  I remember the suicide, but thought the patent
suit was with RCA, not AT&T.  I remember reading that the courts
awarded his estate a million bucks from RCA when the case was finally
settled.