[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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