OT Iridium (Was: Re: classiccmp-digest V1 #615)
What is Iridium?
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Mark Tapley wrote:
>
> Jason McBrien said:
>
> >...went to were the American History Museum and the Air and Space
> >museum. Both had special exhibits on information processing, and among the
> >highlights are:
> >
> ...
> >- -Processor modules from the Iridium (defunct) system
> ...
>
> Not yet, at any rate. My dad just got a phone from Motorola. Size of an old
> (70's) handy-talky, more or less. After some trouble figuring out the
> registration, dialing sequence, etc., he managed to phone home with it
> (Yes, his initials are BT - no Steven Spielberg puns, please) and there was
> a ~ 0.5 second delay between his lips moving and the sound coming out of
> the home phone (he was standing on the balcony at the time). Apparently DOD
> paid for the system and, to offset part of their cost, is marketing the
> hand units (through Worldcom) to the few customers who need communications
> where cell phones don't yet go. (Dad's going sailing in the North Sea, then
> to a launch site in the Ukraine.) I'm rambling - anyway, Iridium was still
> up, as of Sunday night.
> - Mark
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