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

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ok  good  point  Chris... I  would love to know   more  about this  too... 
there  would have  to  be  a  dedicated   line to  the news  bureau    or   
some  sort of  message  switching?
 
news and  broadcasting is  rather  famous  for  using  dedicated sorts of  
lines    I think?   Ed#
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 1/5/2013 7:54:22 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
chrise at pobox.com writes:

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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