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Subject:RE: Pilot Speak/Navy Speak Acronym ALDIS From:hedley_finger -at- myob -dot- com -dot- au To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 17 Oct 2002 11:45:24 +1000
ALDIS is not military-speak for 'all distribution lists'. It was (is?) a
British company that made slide projectors (remember those little cardboard
slides that your uncle inflicted on you with his Carousel projector?).
They also made signalling lamps and other types of optical equipment.
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Hedley Finger
Technical Communications/Technical communicator and FrameMaker mentor
MYOB Australia <http://www.myob.com.au/>
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