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Article: Raleigh company sets up satellite offices for Poles. (Microspace Communications Corp.)
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- June 1, 1990
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Raleigh company sets up satellite offices for Poles
Call it a goodwill gesture. Call it the world's highest lending library. Call it the Anglo-Polish Medical Information Retrieval Service.
Raleigh-based Microspace Communications Corp., a 1988 start-up specializing in transmitting data by satellite, is beaming information from London's British Medical Association Library to Warsaw's central medical library - via Raleigh.
"As crazy as it sounds, it's easier and more cost-effective to do it out of the U.S. than Europe," says Steve Grissom, vice president of a Capitol Broadcasting Co. division that transmits everything from stock quotations to ...