The junctions for AUTOVON are also being sold into private ownership, with a few exceptions.

One interesting feature of the AUTOVON system was the inclusion of precedence for calls.

The United States Department of Defense ( DoD ) drew up a complex billing system in order to charge for access to AUTOVON, and each base budgeted as they saw fit.

Standard Touch-Tone phones are able to generate 7 tones in a grid of 3 by 4, while some special purpose phones added a fourth column of keys A, B, C and D, which were generally reserved for military use ( in the AUTOVON system ).

See AUTOVON for a similar, but non-secure voice system.

AUTOVON was first established in the United States, using the Army's SCAN ( Switch Communications Automated Network ) system.

Most are stripped of all the equipment, although the AUTOVON junction in Mounds, Oklahoma was sold with all the old equipment still in place.

AUTOVON used a 3-3-4 numbering scheme similar to the North American Numbering Plan.

AUTOVON used a combination of its own constructed lines and other lines operated by AT & T and smaller independent telephone companies, connected to exchanges located far from other civilian or military targets.

Thus, almost any telephone on a military base could be direct-dialed via AUTOVON.

Around the mid-1970s AUTOVON expanded to the United Kingdom, Asia, the Middle East, and Panama.

To address this problem, AUTOVON included four precedence levels: Routine, Priority, Immediate and Flash, plus an additional capability: Flash Override.

A selected set of telephones were four wire AUTOVON phones, wired directly into the AUTOVON network.

Others could initiate AUTOVON calls with operator assistance.

Local base switches would be connected to a few AUTOVON trunks, which the user would access by dialing 8 ( or in some cases, 88 ) as the first digit.

Forced to realize that this was the end of a very short line I scanned a road marker and discovered what the end of a slightly longer line would be for the old Mexican: Moriarty, New Mexico.

First of all, to Italy for a short vacation -- Forte Dei Marmi, a place he loves.

Besides showing no inclination, apparently, to absent himself from his native region even for short periods, and in addition writing a shelf of books set in the region, he has handled in those books an astonishingly complete list of matters which have been important in the South during the past hundred years.

Tolerance and compromise, social justice and civil liberty, are today too often in short supply for one to be overly critical of Trevelyan's emphasis on their central place in the English tradition.

He hung around New York, waiting to hear whether they would accept it for production and in that time came down to Asheville and also paid a short visit to Chapel Hill, where with almost childish delight he visited old friends and favorite campus spots.

There was no time in the short Mexican encounter to evolve a solution but the area provided a proving ground for new departures in the near future.

Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.

In short, the traditional epithet for Milton of ' Lady of Christ's ', while eminently fitting, rests only on this baffling passage in the midst of the most treacherous piece of writing Milton left us.

Perhaps, in that short piece or letter written to Hartlib in which he sketched his scheme for educating young men, he merely overlooked that phase of their exercises.

Patchen does read some of his earlier works to music, but he has written an entire book of short poems which seem to be especially suited for reading with jazz.

In his recent book, Hurray For Anything ( 1957 ), one of the most important short poems -- and it is the title poem for one of the long jazz arrangements -- is written for recital with jazz.

As for this rider, I never saw him before or afterwards and never saw him dismounted, so whether he stood tall or short in his shoes, I can't say ; ;

Would you permit Juanita to walk about the grounds with me for a short spell, Mrs. Lattimer ''??

Sacrifice will have to be made in some cases, but it is to the municipality's advantage to finance the change-over for a short period of time rather than pay interest on tax anticipation notes indefinitely.

This agreement is considered very good for such short time intervals.

Why it was ever forgotten for even a moment I cannot say because it works perfectly for everyone, no matter whether he has short or long thigh-bone lengths!!

But during the last several years boats were launched in areas where, a short time ago, the only water to be found was in wells and watering troughs for livestock.

These are supporting members for the short locking bars.

it's a short, light, quick-handling, fast-firing little timber gun designed to push a heavy slug at modest velocity but with lots of killing power and ample range for our most popular big game -- whitetail.

There was a short pause for reflection.

The young queens and drones leave the nest and mate, and after a short period of freedom, the fertilized young queens will begin to dig in for the winter.

unfortunately, no one has kept complete records of one individual, whereas many have been made for a very short period of time.

The bronchial artery, except for a small number of short branches in the hilum, contributes none of the pleural blood supply.

It was named in honor of von Neumann, short for John v. Neumann Numerical Integrator and Automatic Computer.

During the early 1950s he wrote some of his best short stories, including " The Butcher " and " The Automatic Gate ", both published in David Burnett's New Story magazine.

Automatic summarization involves reducing a text document or a larger corpus of multiple documents into a short set of words or paragraph that conveys the main meaning of the text.

Engineers at Abbey Road realised that the technique they had developed needed a proper technical name and eventually christened it ADT, short for " Artificial Double Tracking ", although elsewhere the term " Automatic Double Tracking " became more common.

Small numbers of Lee-Metford rifles were built as, or converted to, experimental semi-automatic loading systems, such as the British Howell and South African Reider and the best-known of which was the Charlton Automatic Rifle, designed by a New Zealander, Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the Bren and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in chronically short supply at the time.

A new class of microwave pulse generation architecture, the RACE ( Rapid Automatic Cascode Exchange ) pulse generation circuit ,, is implemented using low-cost monolithic IC technology and can produce pulses as short as 1 picosecond, and with a repetition rates exceeding 30 billion pulses per second.

In 1977 the 131 Automatico ( Automatic gearbox ) was released and the following year a very short production of the SEAT 131 CLX 1800 was offered.