[Leica] Internet Service Interruption

[marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)]

At 07:14 PM 12/4/2007, Jerry Lehrer wrote:
 >Marc
 >
 >I sincerely doubt that there were 100 Zeppelins ever made.  None of my
 >extensive  dirigible and LTA
 >literature indicates that..

Well, no.  There were more than a hundred -- the 
German Army and Navy commissioned more than a 
hundred in the First War, and the British 
commissioned another dozen or fifteen, while the 
US Navy had four Zeppelin-derived rigid airships.

The Zeppelin company designed 130 rigid airships 
(GRAF ZEPPELIN II ws LZ-130) but ten or so of these were never built.

A complete list is available in the late Dr 
Robinson's GIANTS IN THE SKY.  I can scan and 
send a list if you are really that interested.

But the name of the exchange was just a code 
name, "100 Zeppelin".  The Nazis HATED rigid 
airships and the name was just a codeword and no 
more.  I was simply impressed that 100 Zeppelin 
was the main German exchange and that, today, 200 
Paul seems to be the principal Internet node in the Bay Area.

Marc


msmall@aya.yale.edu
Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir!