Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/12/04

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Subject: [Leica] Re:Internet Service Interruption warped into German Zeppelins
From: leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams)
Date: Tue Dec 4 19:00:44 2007
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I've always heard of 4 Zeppelin's. Robert,Jimmy,Jon, and John. Jon's gone 
and now they will tour with Jason.

"Ramble On"


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marc James Small"
Subject: Re: [Leica] Internet Service Interruption


> 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!
>
>
>
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In reply to: Message from jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols) ([Leica] Internet Service Interruption)
Message from leicachris at worldnet.att.net (Christopher Williams) ([Leica] Internet Service Interruption)
Message from clive.moss at gmail.com (Clive Moss) ([Leica] Internet Service Interruption)
Message from reid at mejac.palo-alto.ca.us (Brian Reid) ([Leica] Internet Service Interruption)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Internet Service Interruption)
Message from glehrer at san.rr.com (Jerry Lehrer) ([Leica] Internet Service Interruption)
Message from marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small) ([Leica] Internet Service Interruption)