-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, UjqGGhj1RMdpSU3sHrYFVovsptMhexj6vBYh5r6pFOxNmeDM5uQFZ7y09SdrNUa/ RrfTEAsgUyszMXIt5AycfA== 0001144204-06-041940.txt : 20061012 0001144204-06-041940.hdr.sgml : 20061012 20061012125548 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001144204-06-041940 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 8-K PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 1 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20061010 ITEM INFORMATION: Other Events FILED AS OF DATE: 20061012 DATE AS OF CHANGE: 20061012 FILER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: GENERAL DATACOMM INDUSTRIES INC CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000040518 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH APPARATUS [3661] IRS NUMBER: 060853856 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0930 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 8-K SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-08086 FILM NUMBER: 061141575 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6 RUBBER AVENUE CITY: NAUGATUCK STATE: CT ZIP: 06770 BUSINESS PHONE: 2037290271 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 6 RUBBER AVENUE CITY: NAUGATUCK STATE: CT ZIP: 06770 8-K 1 v054628_8k.htm
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

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FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): October 10, 2006

General DataComm Industries, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter


Delaware
  
1-8086
  
06-0853856
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)
  
(Commission File Number)
  
(IRS Employer Identification No.)


6 Rubber Avenue, Naugatuck CT
  
06770
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)
  
(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (203)-729-0271

N/A

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of  the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below):

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Item 8.01. Other Events

On October 10, 2006, the Stock Options Committee of the Board of Directors granted stock options pursuant to the Corporation’s 2005 Stock and Bonus Plan (“Plan”) to purchase 362,400 shares of Common Stock at 18 cents per share, including grants of 30,000 shares to each of Lee M. Paschall, Aletta Richards and John L. Segall, Directors, William G. Henry, Vice President, Finance and Administration and Principal Financial Officer, and George Gray, Vice President, Operations and Chief Technology Officer, and an aggregate of 112,400 of such options to all of its employees other than its officers and directors. The Committee also granted to Howard S. Modlin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, a stock option under the Plan to purchase 551,121 shares at 20 cents a share. All such options vest in increments of 20% one, two, three, four and five years after grant and expire ten years after grant.

SIGNATURES 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
 
     
 
General DataComm Industries, Inc.
(Registrant)
 
 		  
 		  
 
  By:   /s/ William G. Henry
 
William G. Henry
Vice President and Principal Financial Officer 
   
October 12, 2006
 


 
 
 
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