[GreenKeys] Historial archive

[Sheldon Daitch]

No doubt tape was used, but when I worked at the AP Bureau in Raleigh, NC,
1978 time period, the only TTY tape I ever saw used was during an election
cycle, November 1978.

One of the techs had been a old tape puncher and we fixed up a tape punch
unit so he could augment the NC election returns input as we didn't have 
enough
terminals to do all the stories.

Other than than, everything was electronic. It is too far back for me to 
remember any
details about the system, but it also wasn't in my area of 
responsibility, so I never worked
with it at all. 

It was a store and forward system, but all computer driven.  The 
national news came down
circuits and stored, IIRC, in the Raleigh system, perhaps outputted in 
almost real time, but
there were also time periods budgeted for the bureau input and that is 
where the state news
was inserted into the wire traffic. 

Bear in mind, at this time, there were about 20 circuits or so on the 
slow speed TTY circuits,
all on a Lenkurt 25A FDM TTY multiplex. 

Too many years back, but I will make a stab as to what was on the circuit. 

Morning Newspaper cycle - for morning  published papers - 6 levle
Evening Newspaper circuit - for afternoon published papers - 6 level
NC radio Wire -5 level
SC radio Wire - 5 level
Two market wires, because there was too much data for one circuit
to transmit the information after the close for the morning papers.
Weather circuit for cable TV subscribers
Interbureau between Raleigh and Columbia SC
Mantenance TTY circuit.- 5 levle

Maybe some more stuff for the newspaper subscribers, probably a sports
circuit, 6 level.

Too far back to remember what else there may have been.

73
Sheldon



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).
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