[GreenKeys] Somewhat OT: The "Hotline"

[Dave Horsfall]

The famous Hotline was installed between the Pentagon and the Kremlin on this 
day in 1963; despite its popular name "The Red Phone", it actually used RTTY 
then fax (now with encrypted email).

It was a weird arrangement; American teletype machines had been installed in 
the Kremlin to receive messages from Washington, and Soviet teletypes were 
installed in the Pentagon.  The first message was “The quick brown fox jumped 
over the lazy dog’s back 1234567890" in both directions (with translators at 
both ends, of course).

-- Dave VK2KFU