Waterloo Public Library Digital Collections

Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 28 Sep 1983, p. 11

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

The Kitchener-Wa- terloo area Tuesday became part of Canada Post's Intelpost Net- work, joining 13 other Canadian cities and 20 countries worldwide al- ready using the ser- vice. A joint venture be- tween Canada Post Corporation. CNCP Te- 1ecommunications and Teleglobe Canada, In- telpost is a high-speed facsimile transmission service that will now enable a Kitchener area customer to send clear copies of docu- ments across Canada or around the world. Customers only have to bring their docu- menus) to one of five local postal facilities (Stations B and C in Kitchener, the Water- loo and Bridgeport post offices, and the Kitch- ener mail plant), com- plete a transmittal sheet, pay the required fee (84 per page do- mestically). and leave, as their originals will be returned to them by First Class postage at no extra charge. All documents taken to the four off-site loca- tions are brought to the plant, where a trans- mitting and receiving terminal is located. The terminal. linked electronically to CNCP Telecommunications' 16.000-km national net- work. can transmit a page of 350 words in about 25 seconds. For international destina- tions, the message is stored electronically until the overseas cir- cuit and service centre are cleared for recep- tion. The message-carry- ing signals travel at the speed of light from the Kitchener plant to an earth station via Teleg- lobe Canada‘s intermr Liana] gateway switch in Scarborough. From the earth station the GET ‘OFF-OIL’ NOW! at? mrrz ELECTRIC ELECTRIC HOT WATER FURNACE Installation is simple using your Present Radiators and Plumbing. ask about a CcirrWtWlMU.A,uutN't from Fritz Electric ELECTRIC BASEBOARD HEATING SYSTEMS 20% SAVINGS IN B.T.U.'I www.chmlm.mmmcw Twin Cities join Intelpost network t . the Electrical Industry tte Over so Years "mirt_r_GirGiGri-"-. WE ASSIST Aseaomo HEATING SYSTEMS OBTNNING as SAVINGS m mus. GOVT. GRANT than I uh. no m mic. chore. OF seal“). CALL TODAY FOR A FREE ESTIMATE. signals are beamed to an Intelsat system sat- ellite parked in geo- synchrous orbit 35,000 km (22,300 miles) above the equator: then back down to the destination's earth star lion, and finally by land-based electronic communications links and the international gateway switched fa- cilities to the receiving post office of the desti- nation country. There the message is printed at 200 by 200 lines per inch, and checked for transmis sion quality. Next, the page count and address completeness are veri» tied and an acknowl- edgement of successful message printing is transmitted back to the originating service centre via satellite. Intelpost was launched in Canada in 1980. when Toronto and 'rmrsTttarttmrtrtss...artt-ttseerrissa. Waterloo North Progressive Conservative Association Annual Meeting on Thursday, September 29, 1983 Guest Speaker: The Honourable Larry Grossman Treasurer of Ontario and Minister of Economics. at Beaverdale Golf & Country Club R.RAt32, Cambridge (H) CASH BAR: 6 p.m. DINNER: T p.m., COST: $7.50 Tickets and Directions Available from Hobson, Jenkins, Duncan, Wellhauser and Taylor. 172 King St. s., Waterloo 576-7200 ELECTRIC FORCED WARM AIR FURNACE, __ albino m. M m "tattnttttet AIM. trt-ttet-q-tttt 576-4560 London. England were linked. Since then, a total of 12 Canadian centres and 19 coun- tries have joined. Kit- chener-Waterloo users will be able to send messages domestically to St. John's, Halifax, Quebec City, Montreal, Toronto, London, Win- nipeg, Regina, Cal, gary, Edmonton, Van- couver. New Westmin- ster and Victoria (Hamilton Joins the network on Sept. 28). Countries served by lntelpost include Aus- tria, Australia, Bahrain, Bermuda, Fiji, France, Hong Kong, Indonesia. Japan, Macao, the Netherlands, New Zea- land, the Philippines, Singapore, Switzer- land, Taiwan, Thai- land. the United King- dom, the United States and West Germany. 0iirftllitjrrtit)at ' Sausage, sausage and more sausage - 8.96 miles or 105,000 links of it in fact. Mac Voisin (left) and Mark Nowak (right) of M and M Meat N‘leins tound an ideal way to usher in the Oktobertest season and raise money for charity at the same time. The huge sausage was prepared at JM Schneider mc. in Kitchener to be sold in M and M stores across Ontario. Proceeds tram the sale of the sausage will go to local Rotary Clubs and, as a leather in the cap of " and MU, the sausage will be entered in the Guinness Book of Records. Also shown is Jo Fletcher of the Edelweiss Tavern. -d-s'ararpfawauea"ra'au-f' lrc's'o'o'a’n't to o'o‘o o't'aT"eu'.'reo "wt' 901110 a t o u ' ' ' A a o I 5 tirriilniril-toqt yourself in gurpléc Hding an electric plenum heater to your furnace can cut oil consumption by up to 75% and dramatically reduce your overall heating bill. And a COSP (Canada Oil Substitution Program) grant plus assistance worth $200 from Hydro, will in most cases reduce the cost of installing a 9 kilowatt plenum heater to less than $500 (plus tax on the COSP grant). Call today for more information. n . 'iiirt'"tTlr'htA"r"S A 5â€"K USAGE Aplenum heater will dramatically cut the cost of heating your home. Waterloo North Hydro 886-5090 MALL nouns MON, my 9:30 A " TO 9:30 m sumac» 9:30 A3110 6 RM. Fall Fashions Presentation " 1ND! Come and see the finest in fall and winter fashions. Priced to fit your budget and professionally co-ordinated by Carolyn Fitzpatrick All fashions available at Conestoga Mall Stores now. Saturday, October Ist, 1983 12:00 noon 1:30 p.m. . 3:00 p.m. Friday, September 30, 1983 7 p.m. 8 p.m.

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy