From: boba@gagme.wwa.com (Bob Allison) Subject: Book Review: "From Somaphore to Satellite" by ITU Date: 25 May 1994 09:08:43 -0500 Organization: WorldWide Access - Chicago Area Internet Services 312-282-8605 For those of you interested in the history of Trans-Atlantic cobles, or the history of telecom, there's a book you might want to search for. My copy is rather old, so if there was no update to it; you may have to look for an old edition. The book is called 'From Somaphore to Satellite'. It was published by the ITU (International Telecommunications Union) in 1963. It covers everything up to that year. It's a big format, 344 page volume. The parts covering the history of the Trans-Atlantic cable were very interesting, at least to me. The book has some interesting old pictures too. ---------------- Please vote for rec.arts.ascii - CFV is available on news.announce.newgroups, news.groups, alt.ascii-art, rec.humor, comp.graphics, alt.bbs, and others. [TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: Perhaps you or someone else with a copy of the book would like to quote some of the more interesting excerpts here in the Digest. Please send them in. PAT]