[GreenKeys] Amazing Machine!!!!!

[dmm at lemur.com]

Ken wrote:
>I do remember a military surplus device advertised at one time that 
>used some method to transmit and receive handwriting on a strip of 
>paper. 

Not sure if this is the machine you saw, but here's one which 
originated in the 1880s:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telautograph

But the telautograph simply duplicated pen movement.  The
Jacquet-Droz "writer" encoded the motions for individual letters
and then activated these via a hardcoded program (like the
ENIAC, kinda sorta).  So in principle one could replace the
program wheel in the "Writer" with an activating device hooked
up to a computer to use him as an output device.

Regards,
David M.
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