Word: telegraph
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ethernet, a system first devised eleven years ago by Xerox and adopted by such companies as Digital Equipment and Intel. Ethernet already has 30,000 users and costs only about $500 per connection, compared with the $800 that IBM is expected to cost. Another competitor, American Telephone and Telegraph, has introduced three networks...
Government Procurement Policies. Governments are among the biggest customers | in world trade, and they almost always favor the home team. Westerners have long complained that Japan's state-owned Nippon Telephone and Telegraph bought relatively little equipment from foreign firms. Now that two-thirds of NTT is being sold to private investors, the government has pledged that outsiders will be able to sell more products to the company. Last week NTT announced its first major cooperative agreement with a U.S. corporation: a joint venture with IBM to build a complex computer network in Japan...
...four years before the court-ordered breakup of American Telephone | and Telegraph, the Federal Government required the company to separate its telephone-service division from the unit that made and sold equipment. That step was taken to prevent Ma Bell from charging telephone customers for the cost of developing new communications systems...
Although the expedition reported shortly after the discovery that the Titanic was in "museum shape," the videotape shows that the stern is missing, and the Angus' still photos show wreckage, including a giant crane and a ship's telegraph, littering the ocean floor. Why the stern disintegrated remains a mystery. Ballard pointed out that there is no evidence on the ocean floor of any great impact, which suggests that the huge ship settled gently to the bottom. Only two of the Titanic's four mighty smokestacks remain in place; the others collapsed, perhaps when the ship's boilers exploded...
...message was tapped out on an old-fashioned Morse telegraph key. It came from the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan and was received by a guerrilla listening post on the Pakistani border. "We have been without sleep for 48 hours," the report read. "It is the biggest battle of the war. We have lost many men, but we will not lose the war." The terse communication was signed by Maulana Jalaluddin Haqani, commander of an Afghan partisan group known as Hesbi Islam, or Islamic Party...