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Home » Multimedia » Image Galleries » SDM 50th Anniversary

SDM 50th Anniversary

Reminiscing on 50 Years of SDM.

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1971 Inaugural Cover
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"The Central Station and the Computer" Oct, 1976
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"The Chicago Show", May, 1976
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An EMERgency24 Legacy Ad.
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The First SDM gala.
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The Fourth Annual Product Review, July, 1976
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"How the Digital Dialer Works" featured in the February, 1973 issue
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The "ISC Exhibitor" price guide from November, 1971.
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A "Kinks-Hints" feature from August, 1979.
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An ad for the Napco "mark 2000" dialer from 1972.
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The cover for the November, 1993 issue.
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The cover of the January, 2011 issue for SDM Monitoring Today.
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"Security and the Credibility Gap" feature from January, 1971.
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The September, 1994 Cover.
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The "UL-1023" Standards for Residential Alarms, May, 1972.
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The "Want To Be a Central Station Operator" feature from December, 1972.
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