[GreenKeys] I think our museum got a model 31 today! no tube init as the...

Chris Elmquist chrise at pobox.com
Sat Jan 5 09:54:19 EST 2013


On Friday (01/04/2013 at 06:45PM -0800), George B. Hutchison wrote:
> 
> The "Sportscaster": would arrive at the stadium, open up his 
> handy-dandy model 31, plug the power cord in a receptacle, and the 
> line cord into a jack on the wall, and then merrily type the 
> blow-by-blow drama as Casy struck out, or the guys were winning one 
> for the Gipper, etc.
> 
> At the conclusion of the event he would quickly shut it down, pull 
> all the plugs, close the cover and take it and the bus home or to 
> wherever they were kept.

But how did they get the data (ie, the loop) to and from the unit at
the stadiums?   Was every stadium wired with a circuit to somewhere?
A modem? (seems too early for modems)...   I'm curious about the "network"
that was used...

Chris N0JCF
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Chris Elmquist


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