Transmitting photos in 1926
Jul 5, 2013 16:59:12 #
twowindsbear wrote:
As I understand it - there was an entire system of punched paper tape. The punched tape could be fed into a teletype machine to be transmitted either by wire or radio, the receiver could then re-punch another tape and use the new tape to, for instance, control a linotype machine to set the text for a newspaper.
As a radioman in the submarine service way back in the day, we would punch tapes out of the encryption machine and transmit those tapes via teletype.
Otherwise we were pounding out the morse code.
Jul 5, 2013 21:42:00 #
dpullum wrote:
I am mature enough to say that the programing courses i took in the late 1950's utilized both tape and cards to feed information to the huge vacuum tube computer. The coding was Algol, Fortran, Migol. Indeed,as Lovesphotos said, what will our primitive equipment look like in 100 years. I still have some photos taken with a 1 mpix camera, well I guess it depends on what happens to civilization.... Some politicians want us to go back to the good ol' days... pass the tape, please.
I remember those punch card systems. My x-wife had to work with one for a while in the early 1970s. I don't remember what it was used for in the corporate legal world. There was also a mock up of one in a Doris Day - Rock Hudson - Tony Randall movie where Rock was the boss and she was a secretary and the machine obviously had to throw cards all over the place at one point for the humor aspect.
I also have all the photos I took with my first 768K Sony Mavica digital camera - if I only had a 3.5" floppy drive to read them in... :?
Jul 5, 2013 22:23:38 #
Jul 6, 2013 05:29:50 #
How bout a new one for $20?
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Jul 6, 2013 20:36:01 #
kegler
Loc: N. E. Indiana
twowindsbear wrote:
As I understand it - there was an entire system of punched paper tape. The punched tape could be fed into a teletype machine to be transmitted either by wire or radio, the receiver could then re-punch another tape and use the new tape to, for instance, control a linotype machine to set the text for a newspaper.
Very true,twowindsbear. I am not sure what the speed of the system was, but when sending a tape it would fly about 6 ft. across a room before it hit the floor!
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