[GreenKeys] Historial archive

[David I. Emery]

On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 06:55:47PM -0500, Jim Haynes wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jun 2010, Pete Lancashire wrote:
> 
> > Not sure if the news wires used store and forward since it was 'news'
> >
> > Any doc's on the web how AP/UP/etc "broadcast" to their 1000's of subscribers ?
> >
> I've seen pictures of the sending end of a wire service.  They definitely
> used tape, so that they could keep the wire busy at all times (and
> rubout errors if such were detected by the keyboard operators).

	A college friend of mine actually developed the first software
system UPI used to replace torn tape with a computer (IBM 360) driving
the wires. This morphed quite quickly into computerized text editing for
preparing stories and "high speed" 1200 baud FSK distibution of such in
ASCII as well as Baudot.



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'For Rent' sign still vainly flapping outside on the weed encrusted pole - in 
celebration of what could have been, but wasn't and is not to be now either."