Western Union Technial Review -- Good Stuff! |
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![]() 13 Jul 2005 09:57:02 -0700
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I would like to express my thanks and appreciation to those who made the Western Union Technical Review available on this newsgroup. It has a lot of interesting material.
I had a pre-conceinved notion that Western Union was somehow a
The earliest issues (1948) describe among other things:
1) Automated switching of messages -- sophisticated automated
2) Increasing transmission capacity on ocean cables: These challenges
3) Attempts to develop fibre optic transmission.
4) Development of microwave transmission.
Issues of the 1960s dealt with computerization and those challenges
Much of the stuff was overhead my head technically. But the terms and
I would love to find rate cards for the cost of telegrams in the post
My local newspaper today had an article on the decline of the Howard
Oslin's book is not complementary to most Western Union management
By the way, Oslin noted that WU received a big discount from AT&T.
I know many old-time chain restaurants could survive on low rent, but
Who knows, maybe 50 years from now our kids will be remincising about
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